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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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"Good." Conduct conduct conduct.

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Elves stop singing, after a while. 

"We'd like some context on the prophecy."

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"Yeah. I don't have much. The story of Túrin's adventures was told among humans long after he died, and at some point the telling picked up the prophecy. I thought nothing of it until learning Túrin was -" he nods at him.

         "So the version you know might not be accurate."

"The version I know might be wildly inaccurate."

         "Was there an attribution -"

"No."

        "Is it even possible for Melkor to break out?"

"He's had thirty thousand years. It is not inconceivable he figured out how to leverage them, and dragging the Moon out of the sky is the sort of thing he'd do."

        "We have fairies."

"We do. Humanity is much better prepared for this fight than they were last time."

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"But keep in mind that last time, the Enemy spent a thousand years keeping his head down and playing politics before he showed his hand. If he arrived on Earth today, I'd expect him to go look up some people who want to destroy the world, and talk them into it, not to build a big obviously evil fortress and invite us to come fight him in it."

       "And the Valar can cancel daeva abilities."

"Yes. Without much advance notice of daeva existing, even."

       "We need the Valar."

"I think we should formulate plans on the assumption we don't have them."

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(- any chance they have a correspondence demon yet.)

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They do not.

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(Damn.) "How's their range? We're limited by what we can see by default but Elves are telepaths."

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"I think we can assume they'd notice something happening to the Moon."

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"And get to it within a decade or two?"

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"Or five, yeah."

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"I asked in the hope of extrapolating whether daeva powers might work from farther away than Melkor's ability to suppress them. In case he can do the crippling a specific daeva version - that's what they tried first - and not the area effect kind. Angels have short range but fairies wouldn't need to go far to reach the moon and demons have astronomical range."

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"It wouldn't surprise me if demons had better range than Melkor but I'm not sure what you could do about him - fairies either, he needn't have a physical form if he'd rather not -"

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"If he doesn't have a physical form then yeah we have a problem."

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"There is no known way to kill a Vala."

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"I can probably do it, though."

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"What do you need?"

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"The Silmarils. Time. Maybe Celebrimbor's notes on the rings, those are clever."

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"I can get you those."

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"How much time -"

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"If I knew how to do it I'd be doing it. Fifteen years, maybe twenty -"

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"That might be fast enough."

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"It also might not. Have we considered getting a group of humans out of the star system, right now, just in case -"

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"That's not a bad idea. I can get all the volunteers we could ever want if I make a video about it but have no good way to sort them."

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"Smart, young, healthy, make the application process require some diligence and attention to detail, we can do interviews from there. Do we already have ship plans adequate for humans -"

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"You can summon in an accelerating ship, if the acceleration's appropriately constant, so yes."

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