Bella wakes up in the hospital.
She is not critically low on gem clarity, so she has the next two hours to herself to think as long as she doesn't make noise, which she doesn't, and foxes all the monitors attached to her real quick before they beep, which she does; she could go out the window but she has no plans for this loop which require her to skip town. She clicks her heels together and gets into her costume and pulls out a notebook to organize her itinerary.
Keep in mind that we only got one version of the story, because they're not allowed into Doriath. But they decided they wanted to come to our continent from the Valar's continent, and they were in a hurry and they didn't want to build boats, so they stormed a harbor and threw people off the boats into the sea and then people tried to stop them from taking the boats and they got away with the boats but they killed more than ten thousand people. And the Valar were furious and prophecied that only evil would come of their deeds, and that's the Doom.
It's the Noldor who told us all this, the Valar have been securing their continent and the Sun and the Moon and they didn't tell my mother anything. So I am not sure. And they're the Valar, they can see outside time, so there's not really any difference. You can't see things you'd have the power to change.
Well, I suppose in that case it could be interpreted as a polite warning. Why did the Noldor want to be on your continent?
They didn't want to answer to the Valar, wanted to be in charge. And they'd sworn a terrible oath to kill anyone who stole their jewelry and the Enemy stole their jewelry.
We've only heard their side of the story. And only some of them. Most of them aren't allowed in Doriath because of the massacre and because they're kind of rude and very arrogant and make my father nervous.
I keep hearing that various people are not allowed in Doriath. It's amazing you get any news at all.
Remember what I said about my father being overprotective and paranoid? And the Enemy having unknown mind control abilities?
Once the war's over we'll let everyone in. I can't wait. Except maybe the Noldorin leaders who gave the orders for the massacre, we might never ever invite them to dinner.
Several of my cousins died in it. Dad's little brother ruled the harbor kingdom. I've never met them but it still hurts.
I also kind of selfishly resent them for it because it made my father so sad and angry when he heard, and that makes him less reasonable.
He, uh, kicked out all the Noldor including some of my cousins' children who I really liked, and then banned the speaking of their language.
I mean. I don't agree very much with my father. But the Noldor had come over and declared large sections of the continent their kingdoms, and the locals their subjects - they were very nice about it, they could defend people against the Enemy, people were happy to call them Kings in exchange for safety - and they grew up in Valinor, you know, most Elves are nomadic and the Noldor have stone and metalworking, most Elves remember their history in song and the Noldor invented a way of putting words on paper, they have sophisticated magic and good weapons and armor - it was very asymmetrical. And the King's ban meant that at least they have to conduct all of the business of their new courts in a language that their new subjects speak. So I think it had some good effects.
Their new subjects obey it because they respect my father, and they obey it because otherwise their new subjects would refuse to associate with them.
Huh. I suppose it's not the weirdest thing ever proposed as colonialism harm-reduction.
The whole 'better educated more advanced people move in and lord it over everyone' thing is called colonialism, it happens here. If a third party obliges the colonists to work in the language of the colonized that could indeed do something to mitigate some of the effects people object to.
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