I would not be especially inclined to try to keep any part of such a terrible history on track.

...Yeah, I wouldn't be setting them up Because History, I'd be setting them up because it seemed like they could be happy together?

Most people can be happy with lots of people, with less disastrous geopolitical side effects.

Yeah.

I don't know Lúthien, though, I suppose you could ask Matt if they're an astonishingly good match or anything.

I guess. No hurry.

That there is not.

...So how did Andreth react to my alts being married and engaged respectively to alts of Celegorm?

She raised an eyebrow and then asked lots of questions about how it came about and then got distracted by various things about daeva power dynamics in my world.

Oh, what are daeva power dynamics like in your world?

Well, our Valar are daeva.

Yikes.

Honestly, I think our social environment was less toxic than any of the other ones.

Oh?

We skipped the frighteningly intense homophobia, we mostly skipped the sexism - or grew out of it, I guess - our Valar are angry with us but they didn't Doom us, don't have that kind of power -

All good things, she says merrily, and then relates the story of The Time Illia Brought Up Gay Marriage At Nolofinwe's Table.

Oh dear. Oh dear. My poor alt-cousin.

Yeah.

The Abaddon and Singularity versions of me both dated our cousins at one point and broke up. Midnight, well. I do not know about non-evil shiny tree Elves.

Lady Hareth certainly seemed to think so.

'Dated, indiscreetly' seems least likely of the candidates but I can't say they didn't somehow slip up.

I think the rumors were half there because Maedhros was insufficiently discreet about being less obedient to his uncle than he was theoretically supposed to be.

I'm confused.

I think there's context I'm not qualified to explain.

Maybe I'll ask Matt.