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.

Their parents have scary stories. Though they mostly don't share them.

Why not?

Nod.

And I'm not sure I have any stories that are 'teach children to take their abilities seriously' and not 'persuade some people that they should end their lives because any risk of that happening to them outweighs any joy they might ever experience'.

Your stories might be better suited. Certainly worked on Fëanáro.

I've got a wide variety.

What did Fëanáro try? asks Olórin curiously.

He didn't, he was threatening to research things on his own.

I am glad you deterred him from doing something dangerous.

Me too.

Fëanáro's unusually reckless, though, Rúmil says. I don't think most Eldarin children would harm another person with magic.

Nod.

Fëanáro's unusually adventurous, Olórin says, and it sounds like magic should be very cautiously adventured with.

A huge fraction of it as practiced on my plane is just variants on 'kill things'.

That is not very useful.