I hope Melkor actually slowed down my aging and didn't just say he did.

Fuck.

Is there a way to check -

Too soon to distinguish between 'he actually did it' and 'Valinor, itself, slows me down like it does Lári'. I don't look like I'm pushing thirty, definitely.

Fëanáro was making progress on it but he's stoppped now for magic weapons and armor design, and he's needed there, too...

If it is realistic that this war will go on for three hundred years and that I and Lári and Aydanci are all going to age human-normal rates outside Valinor and servantmaking is as important as I think it is, I'm not sure he can afford to put that off.

I will point it out to him. He was thinking he'd have it inside a Year anyway.

Yeah, that's fast enough, I won't be that much impaired by being physically twenty-eight compared to eighteen.

And we weren't heading out of Valinor just yet. How are you impaired by aging?

Lower energy, misbehaving joints, Aydanci - twitch, had back pain a lot, hearts give out or brains hemorrhage or livers fail, generally everything starts to work worse until something one can't live without goes on strike.

In a couple of Years. Ugh. I really hope once Fëanáro does have it sorted there's still some way to export it to the human world. 

Be nice, yeah.

...if the Enemy doesn't have it he has a very narrow window in which to take advantage of his servantmakers. Unless Melkor can fix it and just didn't for you because he's evil....

Oh, I don't have any trouble believing that he can keep all his kidnapped kids young as long as he needs them.

Think we should be trying to get to Endorë faster?

I think it's worth taking advantage of our prep time. He'll be slowed down by the fact that he doesn't know what it feels like to make any servant other than shines, which are a communication advantage but not a physical threat. So he'll have to wait for the kids to learn it the long way, he can't osanwë them.

And how long will that take, how old will they need to be...

If he got a prodigy and took all the books and translated them perfectly or raised the kids speaking the common, six, seven years old, could even have one doing it already, but he got random babies, he wasn't combing through creches for smart children...

And I doubt Utumno or whatever has replaced it is an ideal educational environment. We've probably got our half-Year. 

You don't think he could compromise his torture-fortress aesthetic to get servantmakers faster? I guess "faster" is not a known Vala priority.

Compromise, maybe, build a nurturing environment, I wouldn't expect it - though he was much much subtler than we gave him credit for, I guess - what do you think his goal with handing out all those prophecies was....

I don't know and it makes me nervous.

I'm hoping it was just something like 'get us all to not trust Maitimo' or 'get him to step down and move to Valimar' but I don't think that's safe to assume...

Yeah.

It's probably not the most relaxing massage ever even if he's very very good at massages. He sighs. There are more people in Endorë than Valinor. And there are supposed to be more, new species awakening...

Lovely timing Eru we were just thinking it seemed lonely around here...