At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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"Wow."

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"...so how much of a disaster is it if the Silmarils are on private property or something."

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"We buy it. If we can't buy it we steal them. The problem would arise if someone claimed them and refused to transfer them for any amount of money and we couldn't steal it from that person."

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"What would've happened if I'd made one."

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"Then we would have checked whether the oath thought it applied to demon-made Silmarils, and if it did we would try to convince you not to make any more, and if you were unconvinceable on that point we wouldn't have sent you home."

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"Whether the oath thought it applied?"

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"It's - not totally a matter of whether we think it applies, though sometimes our beliefs can tug it."

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"I think the terms of my binding would have continued to find making Silmarils task-relevant for a few after the first if I'd felt like getting on your nerves about it."

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"We weren't imagining it'd be a mutually satisfactory solution. We'd have felt horrible about it, even knowing daeva don't have the Elf thing about imprisonment. But if we're bound to go after all of them, we have an obligation not to make sure they're just out there, more all the time..."

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"Yeah, no, I mean I could've made them in highly inconvenient places."

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"What's your range?"

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"I would have given you loads of warning before putting one in the sun."

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Laugh. "That would oblige us to try to kill you, not to go get it. But it would be a very upsetting thing to be magically bound into."

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"Would you be allowed to stop trying when it didn't work?"

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"Nope. It was badly phrased. And once we were gods it might work." Shiver.

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"Well. Fortunately it did not come to that."

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"You're really not someone I'd want as an enemy."

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"Shall I take that as a compliment?"

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"It was meant as one. I did not so enjoy my stay in Mandos that I would lob insults at unbound demons while riding on the back of their motorcycles, and you mentioned noticing the languages."

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"I wouldn't attack you for insults. The languages were obvious."

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"Most people are weirdly incurious about languages. Maybe daeva aren't."

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"I wouldn't have found it remarkable if he'd had high school French. Or Finnish as a second language! Buncha things I never heard of though..."

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"Should be Quenya, our native tongue, Thindarin, which the Elves of Beleriand spoke, Taliska and Sechwar, which were early human ones..."

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