If their parents would practically drag them there or something I get being careful, but they do ask.

I don't know if they would or not. I like to think they wouldn't, but--I don't know.

Mmmhm.

I never even told my own parents about my one experimental kiss. I mean, I don't think they'd get seriously upset over it--it was just once, and my dad's pretty chill, and that's--not the kind of thing my mom tends to get unchill over--but sometimes I wonder. If it had worked, if I had felt anything--and they had found out--

Would I have lost them. Because it would be losing them, if they dragged me to Lorien, I'd never be able to forgive them enough to fix what we had had--

I'm pretty sure my parents would be like 'our children can do as they please' which is nice.

Yeah. I don't think they'd do that, I really don't--I think my mom would react like your parents and my dad would sigh and say he loved me anyway and he wasn't going to make me do anything I wasn't willing to but I don't know.

Well. Luckily, all nice and appropriately attracted to boys. 

I really hate everyone.

My parents are actually mostly great but yeah almost everyone is--ugh.

If Eru wanted things one way he could've made them, you know, that way.

Yeah, I don't know what's up with that.

People say Melkor, but they say that for everything bad that happens.

And that doesn't really explain people born in Valinor.

I mean, could've done something hereditary, some things are. But yeah, probably not.

I think most people aren't descended from former captives of Melkor.

At least not most Elves.

Most people in Valinor, which was the category of people I meant. I have no insight into how often orcs experience same-gender attraction.

Now that'd be an interesting research project.

The question is: which would be more challenging, gathering the data, or presenting it in a way that didn't stimulate Tirionesque idiocy on the subject?

Both sound pretty insurmountable, but one sounds like it'll someday be possible.

Oh? Which one?

Boats that can cross the ocean.

Something your dad's planning?

No, it's too - mechanical, not insight-driven, not theory-driven. But someone'll come up with it eventually, one assumes.

Oh. Huh. Makes sense, I guess.

He doesn't invent literally everything.