Yeah, fuck that.

I wish I'd done more to derail this world's.

Nod.

I wish I had known more about--what was going on.

Going on, like...?

Fate. What was supposed to happen to my family so I could actively avert it.

I ran into it pretty much by accident.

I don't really regret spending so much time running around with my husband making eyes at each other when we weren't actually making out but maybe if I had payed more attention to things that weren't him...

You would have alarmed the Valar and they would have given you prophecies as a warning? Possible, but not the sort of thing you could necessarily have aimed at.

To be fair, Imliss did get her hands on Vala-derived prophecies at one point. Just, you know. Not about the House of Feanor.

What about?

Human atrocities.

...huh?

Melkor was stirring shit by cherry-picking the worst things about Men to tell people about, complete with prophecies that have, at this point in time who knows how many millenia later, happened centuries or decades ago.

Why the fuck did they let him out.

Because the options were "let him out at some point" or "literally eternal imprisonment" and the latter was seen as being incredibly harsh, and he did a by all accounts very convincing fake grovel.

Their prophecies are so fucking worthless.

On so many levels.

The ones I got were obsolete by the time I got them - "Don't carry around a sword", I told a tiny wizard -

I'm really not sure removing swords from the equation improves anything by itself.

Yeah, I knew that at the time. But it was something very like a proof that I could change things at all, and from there...

Fair enough.

Now we just have to figure out how to murder a Vala before your Valinor gets run roughshod over by its Melkor.

I wonder if it's possible to just... convince my Valar to leave him locked up on the strength of the other world's evidence...

That would be good but I'd still want to kill him, I don't really trust him to exist even imprisoned.

He doesn't actually do anything while imprisoned besides grovel, right?