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After Cam's magic but still basically human boyfriend has fallen asleep and Cam finds he is not tired enough to do the same, Cam goes downstairs.
Mingling arrives
too-early-and-too-late
"Oh, it's infuriating. Assuming that one matches the one I'm reading - hopefully with more detail on why the Valar decided to let them off - it is the account of the kingdom of Doriath committing an ethnic cleansing, this sparking a war with the Dwarven kingdom of Tumunzahar, and several hundred thousand incidental deaths in fighting with orcs. And then another Elf kingdom comes in to fight over the ruins and that, you see, is a Kinslaying, which is a very serious crime.
Not that the second sack of Menegroth didn't also kill horrifying numbers of people, just -"
from_scratch
"At least I wasn't related to anyone on Valinor, that makes it so much better." He sighs and sits down and puts a wing around Timothy and reads.
Every chapter of this book is focused on a different civilian massacre, but the Kinslayings definitely get the most detail! Gory pictures and time-stamped accounts of events and preserved letters between Maedhros, ruler of this one faction, and Dior, ruler of the other one, and so on. Maedhros is very eloquent and convincing for someone gearing up for mass slaughter over a shiny rock. The second sack of Menegroth took eighty-one hours and killed three hundred thousand people. The destruction of the refugee camp at the mouth of the Sirion took only six hours, and killed even more. And then, after the War of Wrath, Maedhros and Maglor wrote the Valar asking for the Silmarils recovered in the destruction of Angband - the Valar refused, of course, on the grounds that by their crimes they'd lost their claim to them -
from_scratch
Did he have claim to them to begin with? Where'd he get that?
Cam flips to the index.
Finds the family tree.
"I found where your alts were during all this."
too-early-and-too-late
"Oath over - in that case why did anyone else let any of this happen, if they knew they were playing chicken with someone whose broomstick couldn't swerve -"
from_scratch
"Whose broomstick couldn't swerve and offered truly desperate bribery, yeah, I don't know."
too-early-and-too-late
"- that's - no wonder he killed himself he couldn't possibly - he shouldn't exist and he wouldn't want to - is it awful that I feel badly for him -"
too-early-and-too-late
He finishes the letter. "Now we wait like a year for him to experience ten minutes in which to compose a response - not that there's - we have to figure out how to erase oaths, we have to -"
too-early-and-too-late
"Soul Elf Maedhros's get tortured in Angband for fifty years, it was in a footnote - don't know about chip Maedhros's but I assume they are forked from not that, even if so -"
from_scratch
"It's not straightforward to fork them sans demon. Or Mandos who I bet wouldn't touch it or Melkor who wouldn't do it like that."
