"That kind of thing does seem...likelier to be problematic than not, at the moment. Who knows, maybe things will change in the next forever."

"I don't think that's the problem. We're not children, we can decide what we want. The problem is that they can't themselves quite accept that, and let us."

"That's what I meant. At one point I asked Celegorm if he was treating me differently because I was young and he said that if I had any particular complaints on that level he would try to address them and I said I had bigger things to worry about especially because I expected the issue to clear up in a few centuries. ...Possibly I should try to be more confident than I have been that magic can win this stupid fucking war before then."

"The Lord Aegnor left because he decided he'd be wronging me, since Elves don't bear children in wartime. Which would be fair enough, except he had his brother convey this explanation, twenty years later, with the added detail that he plans on spending the rest of eternity pining for me in the Halls of Mandos.

I don't even particularly desire children! He could have asked!"

...

"Wow. That--wow. Speaking of not growing up. That's a stunt I'd expect a seventeen year old boy to pull, back home."

"I imagine he was terribly conflicted and the decision caused him much anguish. And I wasn't much past seventeen myself. But yes, it was rather poorly done."

"Some people," she shakes her head. "Sometimes I wonder if drama is a basic instinct, like maternal affection or sexual attraction."

"Elves seem to do romance very very dramatically, in particular."

"I don't think I've seen any, so I'll take your word for it."

"Their stories are all - 'and he saw her standing there and stood there transfixed for two hundred years while the forest grew up around them', things like that. Lots of singing."

"The singing I can attest to. I started singing once and received unexpected harmonization; it was pretty great."

"m'lord King has an astonishing voice even for an Elf. And their music has magic."

"I knew that too. The magic part, I mean, not the part where Finrod was especially good at it. One of the Feanorians sang something to help with willpower while I was digging defenses right after the volcanoes blew."

"Oh, it interacts with this magic? That's interesting. Elves will learn quickly at this, then."

"Focus and willpower are one of the primary components of my kind of magic, so anything that affects them affects the magic."

"These people are going to pick it up very quickly, in that case."

"Would that there was less need."

"We're used to the need. It's nice having options."

"True enough. I'm more used to the options than to the need. Finding out people die of sickness here was an unpleasant surprise."

"The Elves were unpleasantly surprised by it too. Couldn't figure it out at all. Kept attributing every death in childhood or childbirth to a curse of the Enemy."

"Well. Now they don't have to happen anymore."

"We are all working very hard at it. 

It's not on you, you know."

"Neither is the fact that my mother's parents were killed when she was a teenager. I did tell you I have issues."

"That was another thing m'lord King says about the Feanorians, that they like playing God."

"They didn't seem to mind sharing, so that's all right."