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Also mine aren't so much in wartime, although the Noldorin faction are somewhat unsure if the existence of places they haven't brought up to post-scarcity-utopia levels counts. But yes, I'll warn Aegnor about his counterpart.

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Oh, right. Anyway, this was particularly ridiculous because Elf Hypermonogamy had apparently already kicked in.

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Only some of them are that hypermonogamous. I said I didn't touch a male Elf until they had free will.

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Fair enough. Although the fact that there exist non-hypermonogamous elves doesn't make the fact that he left less ridiculous considering that he at least thought he wasn't one of them. Said something about pining in Mandos forever.

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Yeah, that's just dumb.

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Like I said, he was being an extreme teenager about the whole thing.

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I'll tell him. Anybody else I should warn about their character flaws?

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I haven't actually met all that many elves such that I'm a good source of that kind of advice, and I think that's all the warnings people have given me--I mean, aside from, like, arbitrary cultural issues--except Thingol, but I can't imagine warning him to be less of a dick is going to go over well and he's already tried pulling the linguistic blackmail, so.

 

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I will be perfectly delighted never to interact with Thingol again.

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Any tips?

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He's not bright enough to reliably notice if you're passive-aggressive but you shouldn't overdo it? Lúthien's a sweetheart but overprotected and unless something's changed recently not in a position of power, but she's good for figuring out how to word things for best results with her parents.

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That could be very useful, thanks.

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Lúthien would probably also really like to learn your magic but if her parents have the slightest inkling that it might be dangerous they won't want to let her.

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Well, I don't have to ask them first.

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She might ask them. Depends on how much growing up she's had a chance to do. And I don't know how much you're currently obliged to pretend you care what Thingol thinks.

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Wryly: Well, I'm not planning to use the phrase "linguistic blackmail" to his face.

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I told them that with my translation magic I can't reliably identify what languages people are speaking to me, and they said that I should just tell everyone I interacted with not to use Quenya, it was the stupidest thing. - Okay, not the stupidest thing, the stupidest thing is how the planet was flat. Yours presumably is still flat.

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Yeah, and apparently the sun isn't much farther away than Valinor.

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Well, it's not a regular sun, it's some Maia and a tree bit. But yeah the cosmology is very silly.

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...A tree bit?

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Fruit of Laurelin. Presumably with some magic tweaks to make it serviceable.

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Ooh. You know what my magic is really, really good at making more of? Organic stuff.

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The Trees were not as I understand it the most organic of trees, but that could be interesting. Enemy-bait, maybe.

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And possibly a weapon, if I can contain it well enough--if it's serviceable as a sun at all, it's got to be really, really hot and bright.

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Maybe. I don't know many details about the fruit-to-sun conversion process but the Trees did stand whole on solid ground without melting it.

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