At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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"The name isn't familiar. Descended from who, do you know -"

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"One of Elrond's kids."

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Headshake. "Not familiar, sorry."

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"That's okay. The Elf you are talking to in this book and your ex and so on are presumably in Valinor, which still has not employed a correspondence demon, much to my annoyance, but they were thinking about it last I heard."

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"Yes, I've been following Valinor news."

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"Okay. So you're mysteriously reincarnated and so is practically your entire extended family. ...Weird."

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"Yes. Very. And then there was a Silmaril found in Denmark - something's coming."

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"Yeah. The Fëanorians are in possession of all their shinies with no stabbing involved, at least."

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"Should I be impressed by that, on its face it's not especially remarkable."

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"It wasn't hard, I just paid a fairy for them, but they were really nervous about it until they got them."

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" - and were prepared to resort to stabbing if it'd gone badly?"

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"It's not a matter of being prepared for it, it's those pesky binding oaths some idiot decided went well with pointy ears." He looks vaguely ceilingward.

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"Elves. I suppose you saw my complaints. We don't know any history past the year 500 or so, no one born yet lived past that. What happened?"

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Cam looks up his notes and reads through them.

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Beren died shortly after participating in the retaliatory murder of all the Dwarves in Menegroth, and before the Fëanorians came in looking for their Silmaril. Everyone else predeceased him. (Beren's son was holding the Silmaril when they came.)

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"...yeesh."

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"Uh, most everybody in your family died, Beren helped commit genocide and then also died, his son who I assume has not managed to reincarnate sans mom had a Silmaril when the Fëanorians showed up..."

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"- Beren's telling of that story was very different than what I take it was the Fëanorian version. They murdered his son?"

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"Yeah. Grandkids ran off and froze to death - I checked that one. I have Elvis's oath that - sorry, I've been calling him Elvis for my personal amusement and it's not really appropriate in context - I have Maglor's oath that he wasn't adjusting the story to look good."

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"That doesn't mean they got accurate information."

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"Yes. But I did check the grandkids, apparently there were competing rumors."

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"I might like to talk to some non-Fëanorian Elves."

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"I can email Elladan if you like. I think the ones in Chicago don't want to be bothered."

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"Sure. Thank you."

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