At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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"I dunno, is Quenya inherently magical?"

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"No. At least, I really doubt it - I could check -" he writes something on a napkin. "Can you get that?"

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"- yep."

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"So the language isn't magic - the paper might be?"

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"Why would the paper be magic?"

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"In Valinor things don't deteriorate. Well, unless they're supposed to, effectively. You could leave out a sandwich for a decade and it'd be fresh and tasty. When we left Valinor decay was a nasty surprise. We came up with songs for it - magic songs, I mean - sing them while producing the paper and it'd last a lot longer -"

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"...huh. Can you get that song to work if I make some paper, see if that obstructs me?"

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"I can try - magic songs are so hard to get anything out of these days -"

 

And he starts singing. It's a complicated intricate melody with some serious range, and he looks annoyed. 

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Piece of paper...

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Is a normal piece of paper.

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"That probably doesn't count as paper manufacture, because it's instantaneous?"

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"I can make it more piecemeal..." Paper a little at a time.

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"Think that might have taken? It felt closer."

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"You can feel the results?" Cam writes test paper A on it and tries to copy it.

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No go.

"You can write magic songs without a feedback mechanism but if it's boring routine work you usually write in a feedback mechanism, so people don't get careless and not even notice it's not working anymore."

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"Well, it worked enough that I can't copy the paper now. Let's see if I can get fancy or something." Can he copy the text if he thinks very carefully about that and not about the paper it's on? He's format converting to post-it note anyway, right, totally different -

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Yep that counts.

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"Cool, I can get around the paper problem."

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"Can you get all our old works that way? That'd be lovely."

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"Sure, what format d'you want yours in?"

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"USB drive?"

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USB drive! He makes it in a pretty lapis lazuli casing.

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That's thoughtful. "When he sacked Valinor and killed the King and ran for it Melkor destroyed our family library. There was plenty else to hate him for but - still. Nice to have it back."

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"Yeah, that sucks. I would've been really annoyed if I'd been an angel or a fairy and couldn't just remake all my notes after I died. Although I guess it would've been quicker to find a summoner who'd let me make phone calls."

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"That was a hard sell?"

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