At first she was too relieved to no longer be staring death by homicidal professor in the face to wonder where Odette had taken them. Then she pulled herself off the ground and noticed that Odette wasn't there.
Then she noticed that she had no flipping clue where she was.
Well, Andreth seemed surprised that your cousins had agreed to make me dresses in the style I'm accustomed to rather than trying to stick me in elf clothing, is an example that comes obviously to mind.
My cousins have a reputation for obnoxiousness that they leverage often enough I've never thought it wise to try to stand up for them. But fair enough.
Well, it was 'because they're elves' rather than 'because they're these specific elves that everyone else dislikes', is a meaningful distinction.
I am lucky to have found Illia. As is the whole world, really, but I'm the one for whom she solved an intractable-looking problem overnight. Thank you for building the city.
There have been independent human kingdoms. For a few generations, even. Then there's a succession crisis or a terrible King and people go - the Elves are richer, their people aren't as hungry, they have no succession disputes - at that he laughs aloud - and so they ask for help and we swallow them up. I do not want to rule Men. I won't be particularly good at it. I also won't watch kingdoms of Men tear themselves apart. This is so much better.
Yeah. Countries in my world tend to do alright, but we don't have any alternatives to run to. And, you know. It hasn't exactly been an easy road to the standard of living we have today. And we had magic.
We don't. Constant famines, constant plagues, the leadership constantly dying... I don't know what Eru was thinking, making Men so vulnerable.
The most charitable interpretation I've been able to come up with is that it's somehow necessary for free will.
Yes. Celegorm basically told me that he thought that once my kind of magic was entered into the equation being human seemed obviously better.
It solves the illness, death, physical weakness, accidental children - oaths are a very mixed bag, though my cousins use them dangerously and would obviously be better off without them...
I do not think the Doom has wholly real effects. Manwe sent me an eagle only a few years after saying that not even the echo of our lamentations would cross the mountains.
When I rescued Maedhros. I found him, I didn't have a way to get him out, he asked me to kill him. I was about to. Manwe sent an eagle to get me to him and give us both a ride out. I do not think it was meant as a favor to Maedhros and I'm not in fact sure it was one, but it was a favor to me and I took part in Alqualonde.
I mean, elves demonstrably don't stop existing when they die, and I haven't heard great things about Mandos. At least if he's alive he can temporarily stop experiencing things while he's asleep and not dreaming.
That is an odd approach to the question of whether saving him was a favor.
Either it's better for him to be alive or dead as I know it, and if it's better for him to be alive as I know it, then it's better for him to be alive, and if it's better for him to be dead as I know it, it's still better for him to be alive because of how your species does death, she explains.
And yet he knew what Mandos was when he asked me to kill him. And it doesn't carry the risk of recapture.
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