Horrible magic disabilities world will have a high-quality summoning textbook.

Eventually he comes downstairs and asks the Bar about books in Quenya that reference a binary star system rather than Trees which are dated later than 1400 and reference a decision not to pardon Melkor.

Like this one?

Yes thank you very much. 

He writes Maitimo asking for other signs of unusually competent Valar.

And eventually the book is done.

Yay.

"So should I go back to holding the door to Hell," Cam asks Timothy when he's out of the security office.

He waves the book. "Arda where the Valar didn't pardon Melkor. I don't know what else to look for as signs of competence but I wrote Maitimo and he probably will."

"Is that a 'yes' or a 'maybe after I finish this book'?"

"That's a yes, even if this universe isn't the one I don't think it's the only one Bar had that met the criteria."

So Cam goes and holds the door to his house.

"Want to read from this world also?"

"Want to get me a nonredundant book rec?"

He goes and asks Bar for another book meeting the aforementioned criteria.

And Cam reads it.

"...these Valar just, uh, sort of have the death penalty for everything."

" - seriously? 

I mean, probably still less total suffering if it means they never let Melkor out, but, no."

"It's still not a lot of death penalty, because Elves, but yeah."

"What's deathworthy, shampoo commercial filming? Also we can snatch the dead ones, let's add that to the to-do list."

"Homosexuality - not the inclination, they still just do magic conversion therapy for that but less consensually, just the practice - blasphemy - porn hasn't actually come up but they have censorship about 'distressing topics' -"

"Well, fuck. The poor me - if my father didn't get killed before he grew up -"

"Uh -" Search search. "Emigrated."

"Oh, they only enforce it in Valinor proper? That'd help - he's probably planning to overthrow them, that is what he would be doing -"

"It doesn't say, but probably."

"Tempted to help them out by shoving summoning at them but if we're going to try intervening in random space Ardas with that method the actually strategic thing to do would be contacting pre-pardon ones and warning them not to pardon him, not picking fights in the comparatively fine ones."

"Well, also nobody can open the door there."