This is not Idaia's closet.
It's something weird.
That could be either a really good thing or a really bad thing.
She probably wasn't going to succeed at what she needed to succeed at anyway; worth the gamble.
She steps inside.
This is not Idaia's closet.
It's something weird.
That could be either a really good thing or a really bad thing.
She probably wasn't going to succeed at what she needed to succeed at anyway; worth the gamble.
She steps inside.
"Yes. Much later, Men attempted to invade Valinor, and Eru intervened, very disruptively. That's where it ended up. By Elven eyes you can actually see it."
"Eru...turned a person into a planet because some people tried to invade Valinor. Well. I guess that explains why this planet is a sphere?"
"Yes! And he might not have turned the person into the planet, he might have just knocked the Silmaril out of orbit and then eventually put it on Venus, we don't actually know for sure. And that was the occasion on which the planet became spherical."
"I hope he didn't actually turn someone into the planet Venus. Getting turned into the planet Venus seems unpleasant. As does getting misgendered for several millenia, if the person was male."
"I doubt he can hear conversations about him on Earth, if he's the planet Venus. But yes. Eärendil. Itarillë's son, actually."
"They're all back. Long ago. Some of them were back by the end of the Age - by the time of the war."
"That's definitely something! Especially since there is now a smol you with interdimensional teleport. D'you know if Valinor is on a different plane of existence, a different planetary body, or just somewhere profoundly well-hidden on Earth?"
"Coast of France, supposedly. California might actually work too. It's the going west across an ocean that's important."
"So far I've seen little to no reason to want to try to comprehend him rather than backing away slowly."
"Yeah. Although I probably won't want to stay in Canada all the time, at least not immediately, I have a degree to finish."