Alicornutopia

Other elfthreads I've been imagining:

• Arabek/Pantheon, perhaps with Melian as a god (because they're kind of like Maiar, and because something in Silmaril seems to draw out the Aestrix-original settings)
• a modified Young Wizards world (because Powers versus Enemy is reminiscent of Valar versus Melkor, because they're slightly different kinds of animistic, and because something in Silmaril seems to draw out the boy Bells)
• the Oz world (about which I know very little, but all of these North and West keep reminding me of Oz, and also boy Bells again)

My impression is the reason Oz has not been threaded yet is due to worldbuilding issues. So those would have to be resolved first.

teceler and i have been talking about what would happen if an arabek god showed up at cuivienen, before the elves met the valar proper. it, uh, turns out there's a lot of things that would happen in the thread when your starting point is in prehistory.

... gosh XD

Hannibal/Silmarillion crossovers have been mentioned longingly on tumblr. (Personally I'd like to see Evil!Maitimo and Hannibal walk into a bar.)

Eru disapproves of Materia. Sends some protagonists to try to fix the place and fail interestingly.

An Arda exactly like any other, except that the Silmarils actually are just really pretty rocks. After pealing, the local Feanor feels very inadequate and thoroughly frowned at.

An Arda where everything has gone inexplicably right. No Noldorin succession dispute, no Silmarillion-style plot, Trees still alive, the works. Valinor an actual paradise instead of gilded cage, and all the Quendi came instead of splitting up. The Elves react to the peal's Elves the same way the peal reacted to Evil Arda. And then they figure out why. "Oh, our Manwe spent a few million years locked in this weird interdimensional bar. Understood incarnates a lot better when he came out. Gosh, the Valar sure would have sucked otherwise."

xD to that last

The Trees still intact, or the Lamps? Either way I'm not sure how most of the Valar sucking less would help with Melkor-caused stuff; they would still want to parole him.

If Manwe spent a few million years in Milliways and was paying enough attention, he might end up savvy enough to catch that Melkor was still evil, which would presumably have effects on the parole process.

Manwe's inability to really understand evil is pretty explicit in the text, and lintamande's version is if anything likely to emphasize it. I was thinking "still can't exactly comprehend evil, but after the zillionth unrelated person said that yep, definitely faking, might want to maybe not let Melkor out, he did eventually notice there was something he was missing."

Could also be the Lamps if the Milliways incident (or Elspeth alt, or well-spent pentagon, or...) happened early enough.