Sigh.

"It's a pleasure to meet you. And you couldn't have saved anyone, because it wouldn't have - you wouldn't have cared afterwards -"

"Well, also, any item which even has as features 'some users may find that they become the mind-slaves of Sauron' and 'attempts mind control at thirty paces' is inherently untrustworthy, but yes."

He almost laughs. "It doesn't say anything about the Ring that it'd say that to you. But it - says things about you -"

"It's sort of unclear if it tailors arguments or just reaches for the sensation of want and forces that to produce content client-side, as it were. It didn't offer me more worlds..."

" - are there more worlds? Beyond the two, I mean -"

"I don't know how much bearing that has on the ring's offers anyway. But two seems like an unprincipled number. And it didn't even offer me a way back home."

"You don't have children, right -"

"No." Snort. "We were waiting until it took less than two and a half Years each way to go to Endorë. Fëanáro was working on that."

" - how could it possibly take that long -"

"Light has a speed. Endorë is a separate planet, two and a half Years at that speed away. It's not conventionally possible for matter to exceed that speed; the Valar can't do it. At least mine can't; these seem to have different powers. They can talk to each other instantaneously over any distance but not move like that."

" - sounds like the kind of project that Fëanáro'd be delighted by."

"Yes."

Sigh.

"He's fine. They're all fine on my world."

"Do your Valar know how to handle captives of the Enemy, or did it just not come up?"

"Differently. Our Melkor could - I'm going to oversimplify - copy people, and he can't affect time directly but he could uncouple subjective time from real time. Everybody who was captured was split into at least a dozen of themselves and run for hundreds of years like that. So everyone is just - rolled back and condensed into a continuation of themselves before capture. Some people have run forks of their capture but - then they stop doing that. My you hasn't tried it."

- nod. "So they can't help ours, probably."

"Not the way they address ours."

"If they could keep the dead unconscious that would help a lot."

"Yeah I was pretty appalled when I heard about that - the things that don't match I don't even have arguments for already -"

"I don't think that was a choice in the first place, I think they might not know how to do it right."

"Or it might even be impossible on this soul architecture unless they petition Eru but I somewhat doubt they tried that."

"The only time I know of that they petitioned Eru he sunk Númenor."

"I suspect they were not specific or incorrectly so."