"Hmmm. We could do the story of Oromë meeting the Elves?"

"Sure! Will it make sense if I don't know who that is?"

"I think so. He's our god. Mostly the Noldor's god, really, I haven't met him." She stops on one of the pictures.

"What's a Noldor?"

"When Oromë came he took some Elves back to Valinor with him. The rest of us stayed here, on this world, Endorë, and there used to be many nations of us. They've mostly fallen to Melkor, except Doriath and no one is allowed to go to Doriath. The Noldor came from Valinor to fight him, and they had the knowledge of the Valar, so they've held out longer. They took us in. Well, not me, I hadn't been born yet. 

Lord Maedhros is Noldor, and his brother Lord Curufin who did the language, and the soldiers outside."

"How come Lord Maedhros sent you with lunch?"

"No one knows why he does things, he's mad."

"- then why do people do what he says?"

"I mean, he's not the kind of mad where he's wrong, just the kind of mad where you can't guess why he's right. He's won us centuries of peace and safety, no one else was managing that. And the Noldor like him because they remember what he was like before the war."

"Oh."

"Technically there's also a King and if the King and Lord Maedhros disagree I think we're supposed to listen to the King and I think Lord Maedhros isn't the King on account of being mad. But I'm not sure. The Noldor complicate their politics."

The movie starts. It features scared Elves cowering in a mountain valley, beset by monsters and hunted down by Melkor.

"This is just a story, right?"

"It happened but a long time ago. All these places are radioactive wasteland these days."

"And you can show it over again like with how I wound up here got showed over again? What's radioactive?"

"It poisons any living thing that goes there. And this is actually a recreation with actors because we didn't know how to put memories in a replayable format way back when all this happened, but yes, we can play it over and over now that we have it in a replayable format."

"Ohhh, actors."

"I think Oromë might've starred as himself." 

Oromë goes hunting monsters, and stumbles across the Elves. He's very surprised; he wasn't expecting them to exist yet. He goes to war with Melkor to make Melkor stop preying on them.

The story is very absorbing.

Oromë asks some of the Elves if they want to go to Valinor with him, and a few heroically agree to check it out. Valinor is miraculous and full of wonders, and they return to guide their people there. "Because it's a Noldorin movie," she says.

"Did this part not happen?"

"Some people went to Valinor. About half of people didn't. It's probably accurate about the ones that went, I think."

"Oh. So a movie by somebody else would focus on the people who didn't?"

"Yeah. And on the ways the Valar were creepy and weird. - they were."

"I'm not going to meet any of those, am I?"

"No. They live in Valinor. People wish they'd come help, because we're losing the war, but they won't. And since you're human you won't even end up there when you die."