At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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"Poor Shipka."

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"Yeah. Maybe we should've gotten out in front of it and warned everyone not to try it." Sigh.

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"Somebody might've anyway. Maybe not Shipka, I guess."

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"Yeah, someone who was at least informed about the risk."

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He comes downstairs. "Fairies are upset?"

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"Fairies wanna kill the Valar."

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"Did you tell them that that's a catastrophically bad idea which probably ends with billions of people dead."

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"Yeah, of course. They want to go for it anyway. ...might be demons can do reembodiments, might be nuking a Vala kills them -"

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"Nuking Valinor after they demagicked one fairy is hella escalation."

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"Nuking Valinor before they demagic all the fairies, is I think the idea, though nukes were not actually mentioned and it's possible that observing that's a lower bound on the necessary amount of collateral damage might get them to chill."

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"Did Nelyo -"

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"Want to rain letters down on Fingon's head? Yeah. And I wrote Irissë. It's been thirty thousand years, though, it's kind of hard to guess - Nelyo opened his letter with 'dear cousin, I'm not sure if you'll remember me, but...' - and I don't think he was joking -"

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"If nukes would do it - and if demons can do reembodiments -"

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"I wouldn't shed any tears."

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"I second the 'hella escalation' observation, although it must look like an obvious next step to the fairies."

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"Yeah, societies full of invulnerable immortal people who basically don't have violent crime tend to - never develop a concept of 'wrongs not worth escalating over', or a history to learn caution from."

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"I don't think it's that. Well, maybe it's partially that. More they got exactly the wrong first impression - 'hostile imprisoners of duped friendlies, who make us vulnerable in new ways' -"

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Sigh.

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"Well, the Hell-Fairyland concordance just happened so they will at minimum have a really really hard time getting their hands on any nukes until the next one."

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"I mean. They could always conventionally manufacture one or, given the chance, steal them from humans."

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" - we could just say 'fuck it', get out now, go live with the Dwarves -"

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"I am inclined to take this mess as evidence we're still Doomed and so, yes, do that."

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"You still don't know how to bounce off Valinor. Do you even have a spaceship design?"

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"I think it's close. We could go hang out on Alpha Centauri in the meantime, if we haven't got a way to get to Dwarves."

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"Four and a bit light years each way is a hike for 'in the meantime'."

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