Yep, same tengwar, Bella confirms presently. I didn't see a reason for him not to just borrow the Draconic alphabet but he wanted it pretty, so...

Well, he is a Quendi.

Yep! It's funny how they get about it. My friend Rúmil was literally blind until I fixed him and he still wanted everything to be pretty!

I think it's admirable, in a way. Imliss thought of it as them taking more pride in their craftsmanship, that everything was so beautiful, until she found out. She doesn't need pretty the way Quendi do but she likes it a lot. Gloria too, although I can't say she doesn't need beauty so much, but she can tolerate the presence of non-beautiful things better than I got the impression Quendi do. And they're good at it, so. I think there are a lot of humans who would be happier living in a well-run mostly-Quendi society than a well-run human one.

Yeah, I think so too.

I wish I knew why there aren't any Quendi left outside Valinor.

It is weird that it'd be none. I haven't detected any though - I don't incontinently read minds but I do notice their presence and I can tell the difference between species.

It seems weird that if there were any left that we wouldn't know they existed if it weren't for Idaia. The question is which one's weirder, I guess.

I guess they could have all died, and not been allowed to leave Valinor. It wouldn't have to be something that would have made the world really dangerous for humans, necessarily, not even to get all of them.

We still don't know what happened with Melkor.

I still can't believe they fucking paroled him.

I know, right? Apparently he pretended to grovel a lot and they were all, weelllll it's this or eternal imprisonment and that's a nasty thing to do to anybody.

They didn't know when Men were going to show up. Maybe Melkor killed everyone and the Valar reimprisoned him once there wasn't anyone on the continent to worry about destroying it and Men only showed up after that.

Could be it, yeah.

Ugh.

Yeah. Where is Valinor relative to us, anyway?

No idea. We're pretty sure it's not on the planet anymore.

Huh. I guess they could do that.

Also, the planet is round now! And it has friends, and a sun, and a moon--she sends her an image of the solar system. Not to scale, she adds helpfully.

Huh. My world's got a sun and a moon but they're not quite like that and the planet is surrounded by a crystal sphere that keeps out gibbering horrors.

I approve. Of the gibbering horrors being kept out, not that they exist.

Every now and then there's a crack and somebody epic manages to get to it and fight them.

Epic?

Loosely, "might not lose if they fought a god".

Aha. Well. I think we're going to need to surpass that, collectively if not individually.

Yes, although it's not exactly the same - my world sort of enforces a power level divide as a fundamental regularity, which I don't think is compatible with a really science world.