"So Cam spends the next eight months making people suicide triggers. And the Enemy finds a way of killing them that doesn't give them a chance to trigger 'em, so he goes back and does easier-to-trigger suicide triggers. And he discovers two things: one is a secret weakness of the Enemy, and the other is that a way of collecting chip backups has fallen into the Enemy's hands.
The way of collecting backups were called the Silmarils. Demons can make them but the ones you make are deficient, the real things are too intelligent. The Enemy having them means he could duplicate and torture anyone with a chip, even if he hadn't captured them. And if we could get them back from him, it'd mean we could resurrect everybody without the help of the Valar.
The weakness is Valinor. The magic god thingies have to magically vest their power, and they vested it in the planet, over the course of millenia. If anything were to happen to Valinor, the mind-control curse they'd laid would fail, the magic they were using to prevent summoning anywhere in the universe would fail, and the Enemy would lose all his power over his servants and his ability to do the torture-uploads. I can't prove this part except by demonstrating that it happened; summoning started working the instant the planet was destroyed, the mindcontrol curse which you can detect from chip scans vanished, and the torture all stopped and the war instantly ended and the Enemy's servants, freed, all agreed to peace terms.
Do you see where I'm going with this? Cam destroyed Valinor, and then he stole the backups and put it back with everyone back alive on it. He's about halfway done, you can verify that too."