Melian and Thingol request Lúthien and her family back.

Do they have a good place to put them and everyone they'll want a few layers out?

Yep! With the prospect of all the horrible things ending they've set up a little kingdom in the far west of Valinor and gotten clearance for it to have a few humans as necessary.

So she puts the people they ask for.

There are some happy reunions and some excruciatingly awkward ones. 

Someone points out that that's all the dead people Maedhros could possibly be considered responsible for.

Do Maedhros's family and alt have any opinions generated since the idea was first proposed of rollback plus as-desired filling in? Lórien can do that. (Sorry, Ring.)

They continue to think that's the best way to handle it.

Who should be there? Fingon maybe if it won't be too upsettingly distracting that he got straightened?

"I expect both that and the implication people knew enough to suggest I was present would be upsettingly distracting."

"...right, that. Probably one or more of his brothers then I guess?"

"I can be there. I was used to handling him at the end, I don't know how much that'll end up being needed but if it is -"

Nod.

So he sits in Lórien and the Valar tinker and -

He wakes up. 

He feels terrible - like he's just run a very long distance, which he hasn't because he can't move at all, and like he is suffocating and like he is drowning and like he is watching himself from a great distance, scrambling to learn the controls that would let him move the body he can barely see or sense. He remembers going to parley with Melkor. He remembers nothing after that.

He makes the obvious inference. He stops his heart.

Well, dead people are talkable-to now.

Being dead is significantly better! None of the horribly unpleasant physiological reactions are present and the feeling like he's maneuvering from behind very thick walls is still present but makes more sense.

Maitimo?

Are you dead? How are you dead?

- I am not dead. You kind of missed a lot. Uh. This is the short version, but - you went to parley with Melkor. You got captured. We lost the war and a long time later someone managed to get through to the Valar about how to be good at their jobs and they reembodied everyone except you were, uh, too fucked up for Mandos to help very helpfully even now that he's better at his job. So they erased everything after you got captured - did that work -

I do not have memories from after that point but I think I maybe still have relevant associations and reflexes and so on. Being alive was very unpleasant. Being dead is only being-dead amounts of unpleasant. 

- I mean, now that we can talk with you dead maybe we can just keep a bunch of people here to chat with you while they try to figure out what to do about those other things? They could also keep you alive but asleep if being dead with people to talk to is too awful.

 - it's not enjoyable but I wasn't dearly wishing I'd gone to the Everlasting Darkness or anything. Sleep would - sleep would maybe be nice sometimes. As a change in pace. If it's not too much trouble.

It kind of might be a lot of trouble, they have to reembody you to let you sleep I think, but maybe we can work something out. Do you want to talk to people -

Of course I want to talk to people. 

He smiles a little bit and conveys this.