"I think so. I'm okay with having messed up, more than with having never stood a chance..."

"Hm. ...I don't really know enough about how the free will thing works to guess if he did stand a chance in some sense or not, really..."

"The Valar don't have free will either but we sure blame them for things when they do stupid evil things."

"Yeah, I guess that's true."

"And he wasn't stupid or evil just very hurt and scared but still if he'd been smarter - if he could have figured out something better than the Silmarils -"

"I suppose in the degenerate case if he'd invented outright omnipotence just because it might come in handy some day things would have gone differently, what I'm not sure is what the accessible intermediate cases look like."

"I knew I should be doing that!"

"But omnipotence isn't something you can just go downtown and grab off a shelf, and it would take so long to do it as a single thing, so it makes more sense to get one ability and then another one and then another, and then you have to do that in some kind of order..."

"And he didn't even know he was getting slowed down because he didn't have you to notice the time-slide..."

"I am actually kind of surprised that he never noticed that even without me. I guess there also wasn't communication with the Outer Lands to compare..."

"Even if he noticed it'd just have driven him crazy, I don't think our magic can fix it..."

"There's Tol Eressëa."

"So there is something I should have done."

"You keep talking about him in the first person and it's very strange."

"He's who I'd be if not for you."

"You say 'him' when you write self-inserts in books and they're who you'd be if the premise of the book were true."

"...yeah, I guess. 

I'm just glad to have an explanation for the awful things the Valar said I'd do."

"Me too. It was just so pointlessly terrifying when we didn't know why -"

"I wonder if they really didn't know Melkor had anything to do with it - I guess they couldn't know that or they'd have not pardoned him..."

"Well, maybe they wouldn't have, but who really knows..."

"Stupid. Evil. Valar."

"Yep. If we're lucky they can improve."

"And anyway they can't touch us."

"Yup."

"I should go tell Rúmil, he was worried."