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At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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For three months after Revelation he ignores his father's calls.

 

Yes. It should be possible to summon a demon and, depending how their powers work, either get a Silmaril from them or get the location of the patch of ground closest to the Silmaril from them or at worst do binary search over conjured models of parts of the planet to find the Silmarils. Yes, it should be possible to summon an angel to then dig the thing out of bedrock. And then they won't live life walking against the currents of fading, they will be whole again, they can summon some more for spaceship plans and head away from Earth much sooner, and much more powerful, than they imagined.

 

Also, the curious demon might go back to Hell and conjure some more Silmarils, if their powers happen to shake out that way, and might start handing out Silmarils to anyone on Earth who wants one, because why not, and the oath might still be in force, the risk is unimaginable - 

 

- they can of course get a Silmaril and then, if it turns out they can be conjured, not let the demon go home, that is merely incredibly rude and might strand someone a dimension away from their family for centuries. It at least does not risk unleashing the oath on this innocent world that has, at last, left the scars of the last time that happened beyond the reach of living memory.

 

For three months after Revelation he ignores his father's calls because he is childishly frightened, because his well-polished coping skills are fraying, because if he feels the tug of that oath on him again it will be too late to kill himself and therefore he wants, very badly, to do it now. For three months he wavers.

 

And then he answers the calls, and takes some vacation, and goes home for a Fëanorian planning session. He doesn't remember what loving them felt like but he remembers that he loved them, that it was once very important to him, and he knows he would do this for someone he loved. They plan and they read and they learn and they practice - without summoning, because daeva get the languages you speak when you summon them and so the first daeva they summon will know, if observant enough, they're not of this society - 

- he gets two weeks vacation a year, they plan very very slowly - 

 

- and six years after Revelation they have a binding and a few possible options for payment and a plan for the case where Silmarils turn out to be trivially conjurable and conjurable ones oath-relevant. Maedhros is terrified, and miserable, but no one can tell. He prides himself on that. 

 

Curufin doesn't want to do it because he speaks Khuzdul and the Dwarves who taught him it in confidence did not give him permission to share it. (They did give him permission, when it came up one optimistic night, to share it with his father should his father ever return to life, and so Fëanor speaks Khuzdul too.) Maglor's pretending to be a currently-dead pop star and that invites its own host of complications. 

Maedhros does not speak Khuzdul. He speaks the Black Speech in addition to a few human languages and Thindarin and Quenya, but the language won't scare daeva in itself (if they get his exact vocabulary, they might be frightened.) Maedhros picks a place in the castle in Canada that could be a room in an unusually wealthy human's house, unremarkable, and he painstakingly copies all but one bit of the circle they decided on together, and he calls in everyone to look and make sure he did it right, and he dismisses them all - one Elf alone is not obviously inhuman, two or more together raises suspicions -

- and he completes the circle.

 

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Eventually the fairy vanishes.

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The conversation continues! Whether to permit summoning is an important topic that merits probably a Year's deliberation; interested parties are invited to Taniquetil for the discussion.

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The next time a fairy is summoned in Matt's department he says to his summoner, "Did you know there are fairy-hating monsters on a hidden Elf continent?"

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"...hidden Elf continent?"

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Nod nod. "Some demons discovered it by conjuration a while ago and this sweet little baker girl from Elfame who takes summonses now and again went to go have a look while she was on summon and she met an Elf and was perfectly friendly and then a monster told her to stop moving and when she didn't land and drop everything - who asks somebody to stop moving? - the monster made her magic stop working. She never learned to walk and her roommates have to help her do everything now and it's all over the papers."

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"...humans didn't know there was a secret Elf continent. It has monsters who can...make magic stop working? Hidden where -"

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"The demons have a map, I don't have a copy with me but any demon could make it for you."

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"Uh. Well, thank you for telling me."

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He writes Cam. Read the news in Fairyland?

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I don't read a word of any fairy languages. Why?

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Apparently someone went to Valinor, freaked the Valar, they disabled her magic, everyone's terrified and furious...

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Well. That is sort of terrifying and infuriating. And we have officially lost control of the situation.

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I don't blame them for being terrified and furious, no. At least the way it came out should deter anybody else from trying to go visit - in a way it'd be worse if they'd been friendly and then the first time there was an incident disabled all the daeva everywhere and murdered the one responsible -

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I just did quick-and-dirty timeslicing on what she was up to while she was there and among the answers is 'writing herself a circle'. I bet she won't answer it, who'd wanna go back after that, but it now exists in Valinor as an example.

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Well, if they just disabled daeva magic I don't expect they're about to allow summoning. 

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Allow as a matter of policy or a matter of magic?

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Both? I don't know - it's been more than thirty thousand years, I really cannot emphasize how out-of-date my information about the Valar and their capabilities is.

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It might be that nobody tries visiting again soon, but I don't think people will settle for not knowing much about the secret continent with the magic-disabling powers.

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Doesn't seem likely. Magic-disabling monsters, the fairies are saying. I - can you think of any safe way to get a message to some people in Valinor now -

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...would the magic-disabling stop at the border, or -

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Well, magic continues to work here, but I wouldn't count on it working everywhere on windy sea-route...

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"Ask a Chicago Elf very, very nicely".

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Be my guest.

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I'm not averse to trying but I'd want a real clear idea of what to say.

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