"Yeah. Hence my interruption. If less is riding on the judgment it can be made more carefully."

"I appreciate the interruption. I take it some things can definitely be done and some things a psion might turn up after long enough trying."

"Right. No psions have had reasons to try to cultivate powers specific to things that aren't found on Earth, but that doesn't mean it can't be done - I was able to stretch my telepathy range to 'interworld' pretty easily."

"I wish them the best. But regardless of how that turns out, Endorë's not a safe place to go nation-building."

"Maybe it would benefit such a project to have some eclipsed on hand."

"It would certainly benefit it, but I'm not sure enough so to justify doing that."

"I suppose we could try one of the other portal-accessible planets, but those portals so far all require people going through them to be mages, not to have just been acted on one in a certain way, so getting there would be complicated."

"And Endorë is appealing for other reasons, we'd have neighbors from among our sundered cousins, people we could teach and learn from -"

"You can have that in Valinor, too."

"Well, this is in addition, not in the stead of, our beautiful community here."

"Is there even a technical reason there couldn't be an intercontinental portal, for that matter?"

"I very much doubt the Valar would be willing to risk the troubles of Endorë haunting us here. That Valinor is a place of total safety is very important to them and to some survivors of the First Age."

"Well, mage teleporters then, maybe, or just boats."

"I still don't understand what advantages there are to doing it in Endorë that outweigh the manifest disadvantages."

"It's more of a blank slate - a cleared area would be, anyway."

"There are cleared areas here in Valinor."

"And no doubt they, too, will end up filled."

"And eventually we'll get to all those other planets and fill those up too, it'll be great."

"And Endorë should really be last."

She really didn't like it there, huh.

I mean, by all accounts it was horrible. But that was because of Melkor.

Not sure what to say even to the point of knowing what to look ahead and check...

"I think the Valar'd let us host more humans in Endorë than they'd be comfortable having in Valinor, and Endorë might not be as bad as Earth."

"In Earth it's safe to leave the city you live in."

"We could ask the Valar to set up an Earth-Endorë portal so people in a kingdom in Endorë had at least as much freedom of movement as they'd have on Earth."