"I'll definitely speak Quenya to you, then," she says in same. "It's a beautiful language and it would be a shame to lose it."

"Well, Quendi designed it," says Bella, likewise. "So of course."

"My sister was so thrilled by Tirion," she says wistfully. "She loves beautiful things, she was so happy living among Quendi."

"Does dreamshaping let you fly, did you ever get to see it from the air?"

"Theoretically, but I never dreamed the right things. And then we sorta got exiled."

"From Tirion?"

"Yeah. Built a new city, called it Formenos, it was beautiful too. We--Tyelcormo and I--we had a house there."

"How'd you get exiled?"

"Melkor manipulated Feanaro into pulling a sword on Nolofinwe."

"Wait, what, why was Melkor around doing anything."

"Because the Valar are idiots."

"They let him out? And didn't - didn't even supervise him enough to make sure he wasn't -"

"He was being subtle, in their defense, I don't think they knew subtle was in his repertoire."

"No, I guess that wouldn't have been obvious, but still -"

"Yeah, no, when I heard about him and what he'd done and that he'd been let out my reaction was basically, 'um.'"

"Did you know Rúmil?"

"No. Imliss might have met him, she spent more time in Tirion-proper than I did, but if so she didn't mention him."

"He was a prisoner at Utumno - he went around blind, borrowing people's eyes by osanwë, till I could arcane-heal him, he wasn't sure of the Valar's reembodiment process, I don't know how long he'd have kept the scars without me there - he's one of Finwë's advisors and even before I got there he was sort of trying to make up for how desperately inadequate Fëanáro's parenting was -"

"Well, when I see Feanaro again I can ask about him."

"He's great. Maybe yours is even still alive, if you didn't notice him with everyone the Valar were mad at... if he stayed in Valinor..."

"If he stayed in Valinor it's probably not worth it to try to meet him."

"I wouldn't go to Valinor but - I could try talking to him -"

"If you can do that from not-in-Valinor it might well be worth a shot."

"I had these things you could put on your ear and use to talk to people in the Outer Lands, so people could talk to their friends and family there. I don't know that it's a good idea - your Rúmil won't know me - but he might be alive, he might be able to tell us more about what happened after you died -"

"Maybe. I don't know how much people in Valinor are informed about stuff happening not in Valinor."