"It absolutely is, because it probably goes by the Valar's definition of perfection, which specifically excludes a lot of things that have nothing wrong with them including non-heterosexuality and does not exclude fucking with people's brains until they're closer to 'perfect'."

"That's in the prophecy too, or -"

"That the Valar like mind control better than gayness?"

"That the perfecting of the world would involve correction of lots of arbitrary traits."

"Admittedly not, it just seems really really in character."

"Maybe the Valar have matured over the Ages - I don't suppose there's any way to ask them about any of this -"

"Theoretically it's still possible to get to Valinor by sailing west but apparently it now requires at least one Elf."

"Well, we have those, right?"

"We'd probably need an Elf who hadn't been exiled already."

"Are there any?"

"We have reason to think there might be but if there are we haven't found them yet."

"Maybe that should be a priority so we can learn more about Melkor's security and what they think a perfect world would look like."

"If we can think of a way for that to work, sure--we might be able to get it to but it's likely to be tricky."

"What else would we possibly be doing?"

"Well, the one in the NSA who found you is looking for them, and our other lead--a woman who looks like she might have Elf blood--isn't interested in interrupting her college education to go looking for her biological father before summer, so..."

"And we can't go make an announcement because..."

"Because there's a high chance that they'll be less forgiving of the whole 'Feanorian' thing than you and try to kill us."

"I see."

"And/or discredit us with the public, which might be important if we can figure out enough space travel and terraforming to evacuate people to Mars if and when Morgoth gets out. Even if the prophecy isn't bogus I expect there to be a lot of collateral damage before he dies."

"When are you expecting any of this to happen?"

"We don't have a good guess about that."

"Well. Thank you for telling us. It seems like it'd be useful to move faster on finding Elves and thereby the means to get to Valinor."

"And figuring out how to get the Valar to cooperate, and get the information out of Valinor, yeah."

"Get the information out? We can't...take a phone or something?"

"Well, if we go along there's a chance we'll be killed for the crime of being mortal in Valinor, but even aside from that I'm not sure it's reasonable to expect phone service there."