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"Fëanáro was distressed too. He was really distressed."
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Fëanáro will be even more impatient and disconnected from his family with magic items that distort his perception relative to theirs.

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"He was miserable, he can't stand going so slow -"
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We are very concerned for his wellbeing and appreciate your advice and concern. We are also worried that it will be tremendously destructive to the bliss of this realm to have him work five times as swiftly. His fate is already a troubled and hurried one.

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Do you desire to know Fëanáro's fated history, Bella, that you may aid us in averting it and preventing him from so harming himself?

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"Yes."
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And so she sees it. Fëanáro, older, standing in this very spot. The Trees are gone, the world lightless, the people starving. The Valar plead with Fëanáro to give them a light he has created that would allow them to restore the trees. "No," he says, "or force me and prove yourselves no better than Melkor." They do not force him, the Trees crumble, time passes but not very much of it and Fëanáro holds a torch in the streets of Tirion, screaming. A hundred thousand people scream back at him. "Why, O my people,’ he cried, ‘why should we longer serve these jealous gods, who cannot keep us, nor their own realm even, secure from their Enemy? And though he be now their foe, are not they and he of one kin? Vengeance calls me hence, but even were it otherwise, I would not dwell longer in the same land with the kin of my father’s slayer and the thief of my treasure."

Torches bobbing in the streets of Tirion, the panicked movements of a crowd - Fëanáro, still speaking: "We, we alone, shall be the lords of the unsullied Light, and masters of the bliss and the beauty of Arda! No other race shall oust us!’

And Fëanâro, surrounded by faces she does not recognize, all of them speaking the same terrible words before the crowd -" ‘Be he foe or friend, be he foul or clean,
brood of Morgoth or bright Vala,
Elda or Maia or Aftercomer,
Man yet unborn upon Middle-earth,
neither law, nor love, nor league of swords,
dread nor danger, not Doom itself,
shall defend him from Fëanáro, and Fëanáro’s kin,
whoso hideth or hoardeth, or in hand taketh,
finding keepeth or afar casteth
a Silmaril. This swear we all:
death we will deal him ere Day’s ending,
woe unto world’s end! Our word hear thou,
Eru Allfather! To the everlasting
Darkness doom us if our deed faileth.
On the holy mountain hear in witness
and our vow remember, Manwë and Varda!’

And Fëanáro at Alqualondë - 'wait,' their King says, 'think it over' - rushing out to the shore, ripping the ships away from their sailors, and someone shoves him and falls into the water and he draws his sword -

- Fëanáro sailing away, tens of thousands left dead on the shores of Alqualondë -

- Fëanáro arguing with someone in a howling icy wasteland - 'we don't have enough ships for laggards and cowards, let's go' - lighting the ships afire on the other shore - charging directly for a terrifying iron fortress -

- dead. And the Halls of Mandos for the rest of the Ages, refusing to admit any wrongdoing, refusing to cooperate in his own rehabilitation.

The problem, Manwë observes, is not that he needs to move faster.
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She had some idea of writing it down but that was not in a transcribable format and anyway she thinks it's all burned into her brain forever.

"I'm trying to get him to move differently too but it only works because he knows I'm helping, knows I want things he wants for himself, if he's desperate to be fast and I don't help him I don't, I don't see how to touch - anything else -"
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He cannot possibly blame you for a ruling of ours.

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"He can teach himself to fly and go to Tol Eressëa whether I help him or not, whether he thinks I argued as hard as I could or not. Help me help him, please."

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We would like to. Speeding him up is a frightening way of doing so.

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"Will you let my necklace keep working if I loan it to him?"
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Will that not cause you distress?

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"He can have it when I sleep, he can have it when I'm on a firm schedule -"

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We will not disable your necklace, and as your possession it is yours to share.

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"Okay. That might be enough." Belatedly, awkwardly, "Thank you."

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We would like to be your allies in making Valinor a place of joy for you and your loved ones, Bella. It grieves us greatly to anticipate trouble, and to be so constrained in what we can do to prevent it. Please feel free to come with us if there are other things that would aid you.

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if you don't like the look of fate why are you interrupting the interventions of a well intentioned person with free will?!!?!?! she does not say.

"Thank you."
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And the atmospheric pressure returns to normal.

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She scurries out of there and flies back as fast as she can.

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Tirion looks the same as she left it.

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She goes looking for Fëanáro.

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He is sitting on the roof of the palace and refusing to come down, apparently, and typing a translation of a book and doing magic research.

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She flies up to sit by him.

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