She is on a a nice walk in the woods, so at least nobody else is right there to be eaten by the snake and she osanwëd a warning to emergency services first.
So now she can worry entirely about where the fuck she is.
She is on a a nice walk in the woods, so at least nobody else is right there to be eaten by the snake and she osanwëd a warning to emergency services first.
So now she can worry entirely about where the fuck she is.
"Plenty of them are great! But with Elves, you can trust - even with the Elves who are furiously angry at us for one reason or another, if one is down on the ground crying out in pain I can be entirely sure it's not a trap, when that disintegrates it's so hard -"
"I remember that age. I was so angry and had so little to be angry about. And now there's so much and it's just -" Sigh.
"She has even less to be angry about, I take it, and manages to keep it to 'prickly' most of the time."
"Sounds about right. - so Lúthien petitioned Mandos to share the unknown fate of humans, and Mandos agreed, and set her and Beren up to get old human-paced together in peace. Thingol was devastated, yelled at the Dwarves who were putting the Silmaril in a necklace for him, got stabbed by one -"
"They were probably provoked, there were cultural differences and he could easily have threatened them without meaning it -"
"There were two survivors. They went to the nearest Dwarf kingdom and they were furious and they marched on Menegroth and sacked it."
"And Beren and Lúthien died of old age and their son took up the Silmaril and what was left of the kingdom and - the Fëanorians had been writing, all this time, asking for it back - he ignored them -"
"Did he not know how oaths worked. - Can you clarify how they work here, since it's not chip-based -"
"Uh, if you swear to do something you'll get an intensifying compulsion to do that, and not doing it makes it - increasingly hard to have emotions or preferences that are about other things -"
"I think he knew but figured it was six of them - one of Ambarussa had died - what in the world were they going to do about it, and he needed the Silmaril to fend off the Enemy, so he just put it out of mind - well, it wasn't just six of them, they still had an army and their army was furious with Doriath and angry about the Dwarves and desperate to get the Silmaril - they thought they could kill the Enemy if they got it -"