"I would really love to be in telepathic contact with someone again."

What's your depth tolerance on that?

We're from different worlds and never gonna see each other again, right? If you see something that makes you judge me just--don't bring it up.

I can do that.

Okay.

This is a medium-sized college town in Kilaiuossa, where she grew up and was fine for the first (fifty-three but the years are shorter there; she was in her early twenties by the current reckoning) years of her life.

This is how her parents died and she and her sister had to leave.

This is a weird snake-monster.

This is where the snake-monster dumped them.

You landed in Valinor?!

You didn't wonder why I cried harder when I saw your hair?

Nobody's figured my hairstyle for anything other than personal eccentricity in - in almost seven years -

What happened to you?

Here is the university Bella attended. Here is where she wandered into an interplanar studies classroom. Here is where she landed in the palace with a little Quendi boy staring at her -

- here are the Valar saying she's disruptive and ignoring her while she begs for her life -

I'm so sorry.

...Was that Feanaro?

Yeah. - We must have had, different Valinors or something, I don't think they can have smoothed over what happened while I was there that well, you can't have just shown up after - but you met yours?

I married his son.

He wanted ten kids.

He had seven.

With who?

Her name was Nerdanel, she was an absolutely brilliant sculptor.

Aw! Tiny Nerdanel in her father's workshop -

Aww.

Wistfulness: She didn't want ten children, probably, but she wanted any, and now that is never going to happen.

Nod. Did you get the same prophecies I saw - She shows them; she remembers them very crisply for how long it's been.

...No. And there's context behind that oath, I agree that the oath was a terrible idea but it was a desperate gambit to keep him from literally dying of grief after his father died.

I was there, she says, referring to Alqualonde. I fought. I killed people. There's context for that too. We asked to borrow the ships. They said no. We asked for help building our own. They said no. We asked them to teach us how. They said no. They said if we had to stay in Valinor long enough we'd calm down and realize trying to leave--doubting the Valar--was folly.

Melkor had fomented hatred in the house of Finwe, murdered him, stirred up shit against humanity, and fled to the Outer Lands where he was no doubt resuming his prior misbehavior. We had to try to stop him.

We tried to steal the ships. Maybe it was a bad idea. But. We weren't going to hurt anyone. They saw us trying to steal the ships, they attacked us, we fought back, we were losing and dying, and then the Nolofinweans showed up, knew nothing except that we were fighting and dying, and intervened, and the Teleri died instead.

When they found out the whole story they decided it would have been better to leave us to die instead. This even though they were going to use the boats anyway, instead of giving them back to the surviving Teleri.

I hoped, I hoped there was some explanation, I didn't have any context - I told Fëanáro bits of it and he was so frightened - Nolofinwëans?

Feanaro's younger half-brother, Nolofinwe. Tried to get him disowned, once, mostly because of Melkor's lies.

- okay, that I almost positively averted - in yours Miriel must have died -

Yeah, and then Finwe decided to pressure her to come back before she was ready and remarried in a deal that meant she'd stay dead forever when she told him to fuck off.