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[....obviously? I do not object to my son having a boyfriend in general, but he should have a better one.]

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Findekáno's lovely. And he's the only person verified to be definitely not any more evil than he's supposed to be.

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[He is boring, worthless, and a waste of time. Maitimo can do better.]

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I don't really want to leave you here with nobody to talk to but you're kind of unpleasant.

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[Findekáno's father had me murdered. Perhaps you can find me someone to talk to who can empathize with that.]

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Most of the people I know don't speak Quenya.

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[I'll learn their language, that's not a problem.]

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I guess Dwi could teach you a language. How do you want to do that?

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[He can just talk in it, I'll ask questions as I piece things together.]

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Okay.

Elspeth relays this to Dwi, who proceeds to ramble about miscellanea in Indonesian.

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And after a while Feanáro is piecing things together and asking for more vocabulary words and would be delighted to now meet someone who isn't going to bristle on behalf of his murderer's son.

 

By then one of his counterparts has arrived.

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Elspeth relays the conversation so far - "Dwi can only do speech, so if you might need to communicate anything complicated I can stick around."

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"Unsure." And to Dwi, "tell him 'everyone's loosely worried you'll try to develop a way to stop us all from interfering in your business, which they're going to do an annoying amount of; I'm personally of the temperament 'if people try to get in my way I will go somewhere where they can't' but it seems possible you're more the 'kill them' type."

And when this is conveyed, [Running away from everyone who will try to control you sounds like a recipe to be continually on the run and never able to build anything.]

"Yes, but - you managed to avoid picking a fight with your Valar, right? Same thing here. Everyone's going to make veiled threats and everyone's going to make it clear that they'll use their power against you if you do things they disagree with. The rest of us manage because we want the same things as they do, but if that were untrue even slightly I know I'd be continually viciously miserable and it is untrue for you. We are as a kind of person very bad at being in peoples' power, and there are powerful people who are going to want to supervise you and are going to be hard to satisfy that they don't need to."

[I endured Valinor.]

"Yeah. And were you planning on leaving, or overthrowing them?'

[Overthrowing them.]

"So, everyone here's going to be unwilling to take the risk you'll try that when you don't like us."

[You seem very certain I won't like you.]

"You'll like me fine, you're going to loathe all the Bells."

[I can swear that if I have the power to protect myself and make them leave me alone by any means other than harming them, I'll do that.]

"They're also going to worry about what you'll do to other people."

[Happy to generalize it. If I have the power to protect myself and make people in general leave me alone by means other than harming them.]

"That might fix it, I'll ask."

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That'll probably satisfy Mama and the others in spirit, but they'll want to check it over for loopholes.

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"And we'll need to give him a non-lethal means of making people leave him alone, lest anyone annoy him before he has one."

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The teleport would probably do that if there's not some other reason not to let him have it, and if he'll settle for it instead of something that makes other people go away.

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"We have a teleport, does that solve this problem?"

[Not really, people can still destroy everything I care about and as I said it is not very appealing to keep running away from them. I would like a territory in which no one can enter without my leave and the means to evict people from it at will. And a teleport.]

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We don't have a way to set that up at this time.

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[Well, a teleport while I figure out how to set that up, and these people I apparently won't get on with can agree not to bother me?]

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They will want somebody keeping an eye on you but I don't think they'll object if it's more Fëanáros.

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[Yes, I don't mind working with more of me, I've been dead three hundred fifty years and they've probably invented so many things.]

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You think this'll do the trick? Elspeth asks just the live Fëanáro.

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I think he's likely to spend several centuries just catching up on everything and working on projects that we all have in our queues. Assuming everyone can resist the temptation to say to him that they'll kill him if he doesn't.

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And after several centuries?

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We will hopefully have a better solution, and possibly understand why this Arda's evil in the first place.

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