"That'd be good. - Maitimë wanted me to sort of look out for her but I'm not sure I did a very good job, I was sinking most of my time into meditating on killing Ainur."

"The risk Maitimë probably anticipated was that she would either die of grief or go on a vengeance spree with a lot of collateral damage and looks like she didn't do either of those things so clearly you allocated time well."

"Yeah, that would've gotten my attention."

"Fëanors usually really fall apart with the right pressure points but usually Melkor has a thousand years to fuck with her."

"I get the impression people are going to be surprised at how little she cared that Nolofinwë took over running things."

"Yeah, one of the pressure points if Melkor gets enough time for games is that the succession gets contested."

"Ruling people does not seem like Feanárë's optimal deployment at all."

"Presumably why the Enemy tries so hard to convince her that she can't trust anyone else to do it."

"I'm not really sure whether to count my Arda as a contributor to the earlier-the-better pattern. I guess it depends whether you think an eclipse is worse than a well-evacuated continent collapse and how big a deal Mandos dying is."

"You got there faster and your humans didn't murder all the surrounding Elves and Dwarves under Sauron's guidance; I think you win..."

"Suppose. Eclipses are a mess though. ...Come to think of it, I think Eru was deliberately fucking with us, the humans could just as well not have eclipsed at all, they weren't twelve yet."

"...that's worrying."

"It's also possible that this is just how suddenly existing adults who are developmentally as-though-older-than-twelve work but absent investigations of neighboring worlds where we have natural experiments on that I suspect foul play."

"Matches my vague impressions of Eru's style -"

"Yyyyep."

"I am increasingly inclined to interpret the something-awful-always-happens-to-me as them also."

"Supporting evidence: Mitros is fine!"

"And awfully smug about it."

"I don't know why Erus would have it in for you so undeterrably though."

"There's a sort of - give someone everything and then take it all away, bit by bit -"

"Having everything and then having it taken away bit by bit is not how I'd describe being still closeted and not running a political unit in your own right yet at the time you're abruptly captured by the Enemy."

"In the standard timeline I am very happy and fulfilled before everything falls apart. Not having achieved all my goals yet is - a feature of my goals, they tend to be ambitious."

"Okay, fine. Still, there have to be other people Eru could get her kicks out of messing with and somehow it's always yous."

"I mean, in the standard timeline everyone has a pretty terrible time of it. But it does seem to be especially mes."

"It seems to be specifically yous in the sense that even if somebody shows up in time to avert most people's terrible time of it or at least scramble it beyond recognition, the you gets singled out. I guess Finwë also dies with remarkable consistency."