"What's a nuke?"

"Extremely powerful nonmagical bomb. Flattened his fortress, but he picked up and went around wearing the fallout like a fashion statement."

"Eugh. Well, I had no plans to try anything but magic on mine, so there's that."

"Can't guarantee they all work the same. But I do recommend being sure you can do it before you pull the trigger."

"The trouble is figuring out how to be sure, without pulling the trigger," she sighs.

"Yeah. I killed one of his minions with my bare hands but there was a big jump in necessary lethality so that's not a good indicator."

"The minions of my deity are extremely murderable," she nods.

"And you haven't been murdered back, that's promising."

"People tell me to stay safe sometimes and I promise them that my immediate vicinity will be far more dangerous for servants of the Enemy than for me."

"Heh, I like that."

"Thanks. I think it was--during the Dagor Bragollach, um, that was this battle a little while back, my sister who came with me on my transdimensional accident wanted to know if I was safe and Fingon, this guy, he's a prince and a military officer of some kind, anyway he said he was pretty sure I was, but 'safely fighting literally everything' rather than 'safely behind fortress walls."

"Fingon?"

"We showed up in different places in the new universe following the accident and he's the guy who found her, I ended up nearest one of his cousins, named Maedhros. They were kind of far apart, geographically, we hadn't seen each other in person since the accident at the time."

"These names are familiar."

"Was your evil god named Morgoth."

"One of his excessive number of names, yes."

"Detonating balrogs is fun," she says, the large number of more important things she could say in response to this revelation tripping each other up.

"It is so fun. I only got to do two. Sauron wasn't fun but he was very satisfying."

"Maedhros says he doesn't think I'm ready to fight Sauron," she says wistfully. "I got to do a lot more than two, though, and this enormous dragon-thing." She makes a scale illusion of Glaurung next to some Quendi.

"Wow, I didn't run into any of those."

"When'd you show up?"

"Nolofinwëans were crossing the Ice, I landed right near them."

"Ah."

"Several centuries after that, for me. Seems the time difference gave him some extra R&D leeway."

"Makes sense. - You've got a live Maedhros? A live Maedhros not in Angband?"

"Fingon rescued him. Had to cut off his hand to do it, couldn't get it out of the shackle, I grew it back. You rescued yours?"