"Died when the place they were staying had a couple thousand unwarned uncontrolled eclipsed, so they're a bit more complicated to bring back but we'll have them soon too."

Oh.

So, uh, they joined instead of dying?

"Yes. Melkor just had them resurrecting orcs, they won't be in any trouble."

"We can do that?"

"Yep!  They both got it to click within a few months of Melkor escaping, you might be pretty close!"

"Do you still need people to do that now there's the Ents -?"

"Are the Ents going to resurrect more people -?"

"They're really slow and don't want most forms of payment, but I bet we'll have human resurrection reasonably accessible within ten years or so, maybe one of the Ents will pick up a way to do it batched."

"So how did you get them to bring us back?"

"We have a person who is assigned to communications with them, it's not impossible or anything, just - annoyingly slow-paced. I was really determined to get you back, and they're sort of friendly with this Maia we know in the area. Just - can't count on having all of Earth anytime soon."

This is a pretty satisfactory outcome. The eclipsed turn to catching up with where their families and friends are, except for the one who is reading the last ten years of a webcomic.

Great. Now to tech-planning!

Tech-planning!

Space has lots of Elfy-aesthetic stuff and Warp and Revelation have lots of humans-useful stuff. Some of them are even things Fëanáre could have invented! (Some are things her alt invented.)

He spends a week in the ballroom listening to the highest acceleration song Epic has and reading everything. 

After a week he cannot deflect his father any longer and assents to see him. And is tearfully hugged for what feels like forever and is made only slightly more tolerable by the fact he can pepper Epic with wizardry questions while it happens.

He declines to meet his father's new family. Vehemently.

They're okay. They think we're great.

Doesn't make them family.

No.

Walk me through the interdimensional teleport -

- he going to relent on that?

- probably not. They never get better than 'civil indifference', most places -

Sure, but Epic likes us fine -

His mother isn't dead.

So past that point - they just intractably hate us all?

When an alt of me marries an alt of you my father extends the you honorary non-membership in your family.

Fantastic.