Eclipse Bell in Arda
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People try talking to Earth-religion deities and don't get anywhere and have mostly stopped trying - but yeah someone would've tried -

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All the continents remain in place. Course, she might have been lying about that -

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There's no catastrophic evidence of divine wrath in continent-wrecking form or otherwise.

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Anyway, there's no one else it's potentially dangerous for people to try to talk to, I guess unless some kid in some poor country charms a Vala and then asks them to come rescue his family from grinding poverty by taking over the place, that's not totally inconceivable as something Oromë or Tulkas'd do...

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Mercifully all the psions of the world have more straightforward options out of grinding poverty.

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So there's not anything in this narrow category we're missing, there are probably dangers in the broad category -

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Probably.

Still not sure whether to try talking to Eru.

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I don't think it's worth it but I don't know how to plan around the possibility other people'll do it -

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And telling everybody not to probably makes it more likely somebody will just because the possibility's salient...

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Yup. - the real question is whether precogging a conversation with Eru is any safer than having one, if it's at least a little safer then maybe it's worth it just to anticipate what might happen when people have non-precog conversations, but if it's likely she'll just - somehow notice anyway -

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We're probably unusually bad people to call her attention to - if she doesn't have infinite attention, I'm not really sure -

 

- a bitter laugh -

 - could ask Melkor for advice - 

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Could, might be enlightening -

If she says hi to Melkor, expresses confused delight that it worked, speculates "aloud" about saying hi to Eru too -

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[Eru can hear you just fine if you speak aloud with no magic. What makes you think doing it with magic would have special results?]

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[It's probably more unusual.]

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[I suppose so. What would you ask her if she answered you?]

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[I'm not sure yet, I only just thought of it.]

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[Eru designed the world to work exactly the way it does. You should assume she is hard to convince to change anything about it. I used to try.]

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[What's she like?]

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[She has a very developed and specific sense of what is beautiful and moving and grand and she likes designing things she finds to be those things.]

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[And Arda is that?]

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[Yes. Or - not is, in the present, but Arda's history and fate is very much that.]

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[But in the present it's...?]

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[It is a moment in the plan, a note in the symphony.]

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[Is Earth part of the plan?]

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