"I think they asked him to stop the invasion and punish the invaders and stop the horrible things the Númenoreans were doing."

"They conquered cities and enslaved the inhabitants - or just killed them all - or just killed the men - it was really horrible but the solution was obviously not warranted or helpful."

"Yes. - I don't know if it would be a kindness to you to describe how our Eru conducts himself these days."

"He's more active?"

"He's more talkative."

"Why did he allow Melkor to exist?"

"Eru is motivated to produce beautiful stories, by which he means tragic ones, and natively finds stories in story format understimulating, so he works in a richer medium. Mine has diminished at the request of Valar - they are I think more pets than toys to him, they can actually get anywhere by doing that if they know what to ask and why to ask it - and now makes moon shadow puppets and judges poetry contests."

"Ah."

"Yeah."

"Did he - know that he was going to eventually let himself be persuaded to stop -"

"It seems implied. I am hoping I am here because this one wants a more picturesque series of adjustments than 'decided to cut it out one day'."

"That - makes sense -"

"Also I bet I made real entertaining facial expressions near the ring." Sigh.

"- I suppose he can't have been hoping you'd take it, because he'd know?"

"Unless introducing out-of-universe visitors messes that up somehow, I suppose."

Sigh. "All right. What's the plan -"

"Talk to the Valar, parallelize more than I could last time, ideally convince them to try and open communications with my set."

"And how can I help?"

"Parallelizing. Even if you don't want to talk to them yourself - and frankly I wouldn't blame you - you could know people I don't who'd be good at it."

"I don't mind talking to them, I do so when it comes up. And I can write some people, definitely."

"Thank you."

"Of course. Ah, Prince Fingon wrote, he's interested but couldn't drop his present affairs at once and will come up once he can."

She nods. "It's - not his native skillset but I suspect he could be motivated to adapt."

"I don't know how much anyone here misses them, it was an ugly end. But maybe."