"I see what you mean." 

He sighs. 

"He's mostly better. He prefers being alive, now, during the war that wasn't true at all."

Nod.

"And I don't think he'd have gone ahead and gotten, ah, "married" if he didn't think he was - pretty close to where he wants to be emotionally in some respects."

"...are you having trouble with the concept because of the oaths being gone or because he married a man?"

"Oh, are you like Loki on that, too? I am having trouble with the concept for a lot of reasons but my brother can do as he pleases and if it pleases him to parade Findekáno around as his husband I shall get them wedding presents."

"Yes I am. And I suspect if we meet one of us who has been brought up differently on the subject we will win the ensuing argument."

"There's no real argument, right? The Valar don't get a say anymore, marriage doesn't even exist any more, no reason not to define it however we like and clearly Maitimo likes to have his cousin."

"...there are other ways to be brought up differently on the subject; it's not uncontroversial in my native country, say."

"Why's that?"

"Religions, aesthetics, associations with disliked cultures, failures of empathy, sour grapes, that sort of thing."

"I think all of those coalesced around the topic, here, which is why the assumptions linger when the enforcement is gone.

I love my brother. I think this is good for him, as best as I can evaluate."

"That's my impression too. ...What disliked cultures do you have around to associate with gay people?"

"Someone should really write a historiography, it's all Cuivienen politics and the messy first arrival in Valinor when the Cuivienen politics got sublimated into the process of creating a state here.  The strong cultural associations are with sleeping around and treating your partners as interchangeable and sex-as-favor, none of which seem to apply in this case - though, again, if Maitimo were happy..."

"I don't know much about how it was by Cuivienen."

"Dangerous and complicated and unhealthy in some ways that really did need swift repudiation in Valinor and some that I guess probably didn't."

"...fair enough."

"Maitimo's hardly asking anyone's opinions about his marriage anyway. Just respect, which we can certainly do."

"Good."

"You have a necklace already, I see. Want to learn one of Loki's spells - not teleportation, that one's really long, maybe something tolerable-length like healing? I can sing while you do it, if it won't affect your concentration too much, and we can confirm it works for your kind just fine."

"Sure. I do already have some healing magic, but maybe hers is better."

"The biggest difference would probably be that your kind of magic runs down energy? Hers doesn't. We don't have to do it, it's just a good way to spend a few hours before we retrieve Fëanáro with food."

"Go for it."

So he sends symbols, lots and lots of symbols. And he sings. He is a stunningly good singer. 

Gosh. And she knows from Quendi singers, too.

Yep, even for Quendi singers. He didn't actually have anything but Quendi singers to compare to until recently. He looks so happy at it, too. More symbols.