Varda didn't object?

From the top of Taniquetil you could still see the stars fine, and from - from Alqualondë - or anywhere else far enough from the Trees...

Makes sense. I'd miss stars, and I'm not even Varda.

The earliest-arrived Noldor missed the stars. The Vanyar didn't, which, good for them. So we made Tirion far enough out that you could see them in Telperion's hours.

And now, a lack of stars is not one of our problems.

Nope. Wonder what kind of elementals you'd have found around the Trees.

Light, probably. Lots of light. That would come in handy now even without it apparently being a universal enemy weakness.

Well, stay friendly with the cousins and maybe they'll let you collect Silmaril elementals. 

If we get the Silmarils back before the war ends. I almost hope we don't, what if someone not Melkor steals them...

We can probably get light easier than that. Unless that light is special in some way, like some way that can impenetrably secure a kingdom, there's no need to bring them into this.

They're practically alive, they respond to people and to their environment changing, and they're exceptionally pretty. I bet they'd attract unusually strong light elementals.

Practically alive? Huh.

I hope I get a chance to see those.

Just don't touch, she says wryly.

Fëanáro was possessive of them even before the war, I'm not optimistic he'll let anyone see them afterwards.

Can't say I'm surprised. And even if they are magically special, they wouldn't need that by then.

If they're magically special that would actually explain a lot, he says thoughtfully.

I meant our kind of magic.

Aren't all things that are symbolically important and very intensely whatever they are going to be attractors for our kind of magic?

Yeah. But that just means it'd be a stronger attractor than other light sources, not that it'd do something unprecedented.

I don't know enough to predict whether it'd do something unprecedented.

Once we've won we can worry about whether it's worth asking really nicely to see the Silmarils.

They seem to be at least invested in pretending they like you. They sent all those nice engineering diagrams. 

I think that was them at least pretending to me that they like you. Helping their allies build up to better oppose a common Enemy, or something like that. I'm not the one running a kingdom that benefits from it.

It's a bit past the point for pretending they like us, but helping against a common Enemy, maybe. Is Maitimo not also at least pretending to like you personally, that surprises me.

That too, I just read the engineering part as not mostly being about me.