"Yeah, we've never actually done it that way so far."

"If you're ever interested do drop by New Mithrim, you'd have no trouble finding other players. And everyone would be relieved to see Maedhros so well and happy."

"Noted."

And he wishes her well and melts off.

Well, that was nice.

Maedhros is smiling at her. See? Much more diplomatic than his sister, isn't he? Thingol's enchanted with him and I think has considered naming him his heir.

Not Lúthien?

She's a girl. I realize that this is utterly ridiculous in general and also probably to Asgardians particularly.

Incredibly.

If she had a son he'd probably be Thingol's heir, that's allowed in place of anything better.

Bleah.

My parents solved this problem by having seven sons.

...what, on purpose? Do Quendi get to gender-select their kids?

Did you notice that the House of Finwë has a gender ratio that makes no sense at all? Because we do. My uncles both had three sons and then a daughter; my parents never got around to the daughter.

It could have been chance. Huh. For most people that would require some kind of clinical intervention.

The probability of five, even, isn't that bad. Seven is very statistically unlikely, were it at random. I don't know how it's done.

Well, any specific arrangement of genders is equally statistically likely, and I didn't know there was a reason to deliberately bias for sons like that.

The whole rest of Valinor biased for girls when they noticed how the House of Finwë was tilting. Bit unfortunate.

...lovely.

I always thought it was kind of amusing, really.

Why?

Oh, just - people being predictably shortsighted and getting a mildly silly result, no real harm done.

I can't help but wonder if an inconvenient number of them exclusively like boys and didn't have enough to go around.

Yes, that did result, but they'll find boys eventually, the next generation corrected for the situation.

Maybe there will be a rash of marrying aliens or something.