Elfthreads!

[MaggieoftheOwls]

re: inadequately documented wishing machine, was the documentation magic and that's why Cam hasn't solved the problem yet?

[Kappa]

Or did the documentation just plain not exist?

[lintamande]

re: Lúthien's birthdate, the Grey Annals entry for the Y.T. 1200 says " It is not known to any among Elves or Men when Luthien, only child of Elwe and Melian, came into the World, fairest of all the Children of Iluvatar that were or shall be. But it is held that it was at the end of the first age of the Chaining of Melkor, when all the Earth had great peace and the glory of Valinor was at its noon, and though Middle-earth for the most [part] lay in the Sleep of Yavanna, in Beleriand under the power of Melian there was life and joy and the bright stars shone like silver fires. In the Forest of Neldoreth it is said that she was born and cradled under the stars of heaven, and the white flowers of
niphredil came forth to greet her, as stars from the earth." This usually gets reported as 'she was born in 1200' but it's sufficiently ambiguous that I feel comfortable ignoring it and placing her birth year in the 1400s. (Silmaril!Lúthien would be more assertive and have accomplished, well, anything were she older than Fëanor.)

[jalapeno_dude]

Thanks! As a side note that's a super weird quote. Like, shouldn't Elwe know when Luthien was born, at least?

[jalapeno_dude]

Did Eagles eclipse in Ithil?

[DanielH]

Ainur?

[Nemo]

"They will find the competing gender roles thing really weird but get over it quickly enough to have a spectacular and globally-televised wedding on whoever's planet has more people to be impressed by such and then they'll sing together for all of time.

Given that it's a Flat Elf speaking, I'm choosing to interpret this as a globally-televised wedding party.

[DanielH]

That was exactly my first thought.

[pedromvilar]

It is very amusing to see Sith try to kill indestructible people and get really angry at how much they're failing.

[Alicorn]

Ainur do not eclipse. (Or they would have done when the lamps fell.)