What stage is next?

I look at all the results and try to figure out what they mean and creating more elaborate combinations a little less blindly.

And you think that's likely to get interesting results?

I hope so!

I know a number of other people who are interested in learning magic, Bella, Olórin says, if you have any desire to teach it.

There's not much to teach yet, but I could teach some people what I've got.

Aulë might invite you to host a talk for the Maiar and Eldar who work with him, if it's convenient.

Um. She thinks about that. I could probably put together a talk.

Lovely! It's not urgent; let him know in the next few years if it's something you'd be interested in doing.

I might have more interesting things to say in that time.

I'm sure you could also give more than one talk, if there's enough to fill many of them.

I mean, what I could present now would be the scrolls for the spells I started with and the handful of interesting results, that's about it.

It's enough to learn magic from, I expect it'd be interesting. But your choice.

What would I do about the combat spells? I didn't teach them to Fëanáro but if the audience would all be adults...

They might have non-combat applications that we can think of! Especially for us, I doubt many of them would do anything to harm us and if we were involved in a fight with more fragile people we'd just put them very far away from each other.

Yeah, they do have some. Like freezing fruit, although eventually there'll be something better for that in particular. I can include them.

Lovely. I wouldn't recommend developing more. It seems possible that if there were a dozen of Fëanáro running around with combat spells they'd get upset with each other and use them in anger, and Mandos is going to take that kind of thing very gravely. Living in fear is a very grievous wrong.

Oh yeah. I'm definitely aiming for launderers and crystal balls and not fireballs.

I appreciate your foresight there.

It's not actually common in my world for little kids to attack each other with magic, but maybe that's because by the time most people learn any spells they've already been introduced to the weapons culture and that's their first thing to try if they're that mad.

I think they'd - fail to realize that they could harm another person. The older generation knows, but the younger ones have grown up in Valinor, where it's all but impossible to hurt yourself and fixed immediately - you could tell them, but I think some people would just not think of badly hurting another as an outcome that was even possible, while they're still young and have no exposure to the idea to teach them better.

I had to get kind of severe about it with Fëanáro before he understood, yeah.

So, we'll teach them dancing lights and not fireballs. If their lives are so good it's annoyingly difficult to explain to them what 'dangerous' means, that's a good problem to have. And maybe a better solution will be found eventually.

I can tell them scary stories from home.