At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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"You have no idea. Valinor didn't have currency - gift economy - it worked in the sense that no one starved and that if you didn't care about speed you could eventually get most things which people were willing to produce in exchange for other things but it was so blindingly maddeningly inefficient and no one cared!!!! When we came to Endorë we met Dwarves and they were like 'that's dumb' and I was like 'you don't fucking say' - Dwarves were brilliant, by far the best people I've ever known -"

- and so on -

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This is a fascinating monologue.

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That's good because he seems very willing to keep at it for as long as Cam wants to hear about trade relations between long-dead primitive civilizations. 

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Cam took econ on purpose, this is fun.

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" - which was just a disguised tariff, if you think about it, but taxes to maintain the roads really were important so we came up with a different scheme for it," he concludes. "I really hope Dwarves are still alive somewhere."

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"Well, I can try conjuring for recent works of theirs now I know to go for text specifically."

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"Please!!!"

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Works of Dwarven civilization this year?

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Lots of them!!!

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"There are totally still Dwarves!"

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"Are there - do they have an afterlife, are there posthumous works of Dwarves -"

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"- yep!"

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...now Cam is holding a ball. "Planet!"

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"The trade delegate from Tumunzahar I mentioned in that last story - I married her - we had children -"

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...he puts down the planet and his hands are full of USB drives. "...three of them?"

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...nod.

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Cam hands him the drive. "Published works last hundred years wife and kids."

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He breaks down crying.

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"I can get you the rest I just didn't know how voluminous it'll be it's been a long time."

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"Thirty-one thousand years," he whispers. "Where - where's the afterlife -"

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The planet appears as a pinhead in glass surrounded by clear glass vacuum and -

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Valinor, if he zooms out enough.

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"...so it's in space as seen from Valinor, but - not far per se."

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Nod. "I take back sixty percent of the nasty things I said about Aulë," he says hoarsely after a minute.

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