At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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"Obviously if the Silmarils used sensible criteria we would all be fine! They don't, so, soup kitchen."

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"Make-a-Wish foundation for kids who wanna meet an Elf," suggests Cam.

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Groan. "I'll set it up." 

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"I assume the Valar wouldn't be likely to answer a letter asking what the criteria are."

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"I would kind of sooner prefer they not know we have the Silmarils back, actually, I'm not totally sure we were supposed to do that."

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"Were random Danes supposed to have one?" Sigh.

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"And we have 'em by the time it's prophetically relevant."

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"Hm?"

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"Because the prophecy says Father breaks them to restore light to the world. Therefore we have to get them eventually."

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"Didn't imply very long-term possession."

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"True."

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"I'm not doing it. If something horrible happens to the Sun we can make a new one."

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"Suns: they light worlds. Trademark symbol."

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"And the prophecy doesn't account for humans and by extension doesn't account for summoning, so -"

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"Are there circumstances under which you would have broken them to light the world?" wonders Cam.

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" - they don't come to mind, but if the Sun quite literally went out and we didn't have daeva and there weren't a way to light the world adequately without breaking them - and Melkor was taken care of - I'm not sure I'd survive breaking them, so it would at least be a hell of a way to go."

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"...why wouldn't you survive it, and do you mean you'd just die again in the manner of Elves in general or -"

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"No, that I wouldn't do again to save the whole world, that was horribly unpleasant. I mean, they are unspeakably powerful and I know more than anybody about how to use them safely but part of that is not using them at all, for some things -"

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" - they could do that?"

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"Give me a couple centuries, will you? You're so impatient. And I don't mean to break them, I need them. But once Melkor's dead we can talk."

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"Not for the whole world, huh, thanks."

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"We'd fix it some other way."

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"One may hope. Anyway, yeah, sun replacement, totally a thing we can do. I guess we'd have a problem if the sun were replaced by a black hole of similar mass, then putting a sun where a sun needs to be wouldn't really work."

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"Angels couldn't do it? I know it'd be slower, but -"

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"Maybe they could, but I think they aren't fast enough, it'd collapse before it caught fire properly - can't really do a test in Heaven, either, too much fluff."

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