At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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"...uh."

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"Elves are a very law-abiding people, it didn't come up much."

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"There's not much and there's what the heck."

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"No scarcity, everyone's immortal and has to get along with everyone else forever, population with I think higher-than-human average intelligence -"

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"Lower variance, though. There are more human geniuses."

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"I was not insulting humans. Higher average, lower variance, there might actually not be any Elf sociopaths - we turned out entirely capable of horrifying things, but in peacetime we really didn't get up to any. The first murder in Valinor was Melkor killing the King."

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"I wasn't going to take it as an insult to humans."

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"Human-Elf relations suffered, early on, from the thing where humans are kind of just inferior to Elves in every respect except the free will. People try to be conscientious about observing true things with that implication."

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"Well, we get the better afterlife, nyah."

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"You do! By far! To be fair I envied you the afterlife even when I thought you didn't get one."

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"The Halls do sound like they'd get very old very fast."

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"Little bit."

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"So try not to die. Or need killing."

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"We'll do our best."

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"Thanks!"

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"Limbo sounds like it'd be a disappointing surprise if you killed yourself on purpose."

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"Yes, there are people who have this problem. There are daeva with this problem too, there's some people who keep them drugged but the Limboites don't have that option."

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"Should definitely nicen up Limbo somehow."

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"I'm all in favor."

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"I'm thinking about it," he says distractedly, and goes back to presumably doing that, now with two Silmarils.

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Matthew goes back to work and Curufin back to school; everyone else starts designing a spaceship unconstrained by building costs.

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Cam lightly corroborates Macalaurë's account of events, then asks if they're really serious about the Dwarf language thing because he'd like to be able to read stuff from there?

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"I could translate for you. Something in particular?"

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"I can't really identify anything in particular. Since I don't know the language at all."

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