"And then you had to deal with Wall Street. I'm so sorry."

"I stopped reading minds in disgust decades ago."

"Can't say I'm surprised," she says ruefully.

"Humans are even worse than Elves, and Elves kind of suck! A lot!"

"I think with just about any population you're going to find really great people and really awful people. And the ratio varies by species."

"Yes, yes, I wasn't complaining about you and not just because Tyelcormo'd scowl at me for the next century. You two are great and it's great you're alive and okay."

"Oh, I wasn't actually thinking about me there, the human race has produced way better people than me by most objective standards." To Tyelcormo: "I love you dearly but when it comes to me you and objective rarely share a continent."

"Nonsense, dear, you're the best person in the world."

"You're only proving my point."

"Also the most brilliant and correct person in the world."

"You realize that those things are literally mutually exclusive, right?"

"Are they? I shall defer to the brilliant and correct person."

She sighs happily and looks at him in a manner that would have seen her eyes obscured by hearts for the audience's own safety if this were a cartoon, and then remembers his brother is present and goes back to acknowledging he exists. "...Sorry 'bout that."

"I always thought I just couldn't understand because I wasn't married, and then I got married and remained perfectly apprised of my wife's shortcomings and then I figured it was just Tyelcormo."

"Yeah, that sounds about right."

"Anyway. Lovely having you both here. I'm so glad you're all right."

"Yeah.

If humans have an afterlife I don't remember it."

"That'd be useful information, but I suppose it's a bit much to hope for."

"If non-elves don't get afterlives then I'm not sure that the Valar not systematically doing for every adult non-elf what Orome did for Imliss and I wasn't worse than every other atrocity they've committed combined."

"No one told you yet about Númenor?"

"...No one told me yet about Númenor."

"Human kingdom, second Age. Heard that Aman was called the Undying Lands, that even the animals there lived much much longer than anywhere else, they wanted it. Valar said no, Eru has a plan for Men and it's to be mortal.

They built a warfleet and invaded Valinor.

I don't know what happened except that the continent their civilization was from was swallowed by the sea."

"I'm really really glad none of the Valar besides Orome had particular reason to notice I existed."

"Were you planning on overthrowing them?"

"I had not formed a definite intention to do so."