Who's debating it, the people who want rules or the Valar?

The people who want rules, I don't think the Valar have an opinion at all.

Okay. Um, I'll try to imagine I'm meeting a benign noble dragon or something, that may be the closest approximation.

Good idea, Rúmil says encouragingly. It's this way.

...Do you think we can get my boots off Miriel without waking her up? I don't walk very well without them.

Yes, definitely, says one of her attendants, and extracts and removes the boots.

And Bella puts them on and follows the others.

After they've walked for a while, the air starts to feel different again, and her skin starts to prickle.

Brr. Okay. Friendly noble dragon. That copper in the swamplands maybe, she's supposed to be nice, not like Embries, friendly noble dragon.

And the world bends around them to produce the figure of a smiling, rather serious, rather frail man. Lórien.

Just to be really safe she drops to her knees like with Aulë.

You are not one of the Eldar, child.

I'm, um, I'm a human.

Valinor is not paced for the needs of Men. I would suggest you reside in their civilizations instead, but Men are yet unborn on this world, and cannot live under starlight like the Eldar can. And you've found safety here, and desire to heal the great hurt that taints Valinor; that is good.

Um, thank you, she says, without trying to educate the Vala on gender neutral terminology or cosmopolitan living arrangements even slightly because no.

Do you desire to join this people and live in this land, Isabella Swan?

What kind of loaded weirdo god question is that - It seems nice here and I don't know how I'd get home if I wanted to.

We can set our efforts to it, if you desire. We can take you to different lands and different peoples, if you desire that. Everyone else in Valinor chose their lives here, and we would not have your presence here as ...an accident not worth fixing.

It seems really nice here and my home world is pretty terrible and I don't know where else I'd go.

Nor do I. If you would have us search, what sort of world would you have us search for?

I - um - I like that it's a science fantasy world and the royalty isn't entitled to hurt anybody and that everybody's used to talking telepathically so I could get by before learning the language and um that there aren't the kind of gods and stuff we have at home because they're dangerous and [and what did I do that you're trying to kick me out?!] and that I can be useful here even though it's already really nice.

So this is the kind of world you would desire us to find for you?

Nod.

Then would you like to join this land and its people?

I - I don't know if I understand what you mean? Is this the kind of story that ends with a "voluntary" species change that was never discussed in so many words, is this the kind of story where they learn to fly to "planets" that act more like other planes and she can't go because she joined the "land" -