Hm?

Idaia tell you how she reacted to the fake Silmarils?

Mine hasn't made Silmarils, at least not yet. No guarantee he ever will make those in particular.

And if we warn Gloria, she'll know that.

And if she doesn't know that what exactly is she going to do with a toddler-sized genius who shares a name and ten Valian Years of history with Idaia's father-in-law?

Well, admittedly probably not swear fealty to him. Gush at him, most likely.

He'd probably get a kick out of that unless he felt awkward about it being something he hasn't invented yet.

Yeah, that's why I'm not sure if we should warn her or not. Has he invented the alphabet yet? Obviously he hasn't invented the special dyslexia-friendly one yet, that was for Idaia's husband, but the regular one?

Yes, he invented the alphabet. I haven't actually checked if it's the same one Idaia's version invented; mine was introduced to the concept of writing by my college textbooks.

Ha. Well, you should probably check that at some point. Gloria thinks the alphabet's lovely too--and the languages, she's not fluent in Quenya but she speaks it a lot better than I do--she can gush at him about that if nothing else.

Have you got a writing sample around for me to compare or is it all the dyslexia-friendly alphabet?

It is mostly the dyslexia-friendly alphabet but I'm sure I can dig up a sample. She starts rummaging through a stack of green notebooks.

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.