At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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"Then the problem is that he's insufficiently contrarian, not that the contrarianness isn't charming."

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"Fair enough."

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"And were the circumstances a little different I think I would mostly endorse the principle that people can choose the children they want."

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"I don't expect to end the century uncloned and that bothers me and my understanding is it would bother Elvis more."

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"If the parents were competent I actually think he'd be all right with that - with a clone, that is, having a child is a different matter. The parents wouldn't be competent, human parents aren't very competent to raise an Elf and most people in general aren't competent to raise a Fëanorian. That's the real problem."

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"It is not substantially less likely that someone will want his kid, or mine."

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"And then we have to go and get them, yeah."

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"Hopefully I have dissuaded attempts at half-Elves."

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Nod. "Macalaurë's wife would be very disconcerted. Thank you."

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"You're welcome."

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"She'd do all right."

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"Oh, I know, but what a way to start out."

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"Start out?"

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"We weren't actually romantically involved before she died. So it'd be a rather demanding way to open that chapter of a relationship."

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"Uh?"

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"I'm planning to give myself another couple centuries to think about it. But obviously if there were a child it would be very unfair to her to do that."

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"I'm confused."

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"I gathered. I thought you were confused about what we'd do if there were a baby but apparently that is not what you were confused about."

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"I am confused about why you were married to someone with whom you were not romantically involved and why, if you were doing that in the first place, you'd anticipate it changing."

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"Ah. We married for political reasons: she was gay, and romantically involved with a staffer of mine."

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"And died. Right. Okay."

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"Little awkward. That is why I am going to think about it for a few centuries."

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"Gotcha. That makes more sense than my previous model of the situation."

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"It's rude to say things like that about someone, so I don't generally volunteer it."

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"This is twenty-first century Canada. I suppose she's not here."

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