Elfthreads!

[Ezra]

Regarding "why would Eru pick now to start the humans" - I think it looks more like "oh, so that's why Melkor would pick now to start a war and break for Endorë."

[Alicorn]

I really don't think so. Humans need a sun and the sun doesn't show up until Melkor kills the trees and scarpers.

[lintamande]

And at least in the Silmaril metacontinuity, humans show up earlier when the Sun shows up earlier.

[DanielH]

That doesn’t explain Shine though. Plus Eru knew when Melkor was going to start a war, and could have stopped Melkor from knowing the humans’ schedule. That is probably why Melkor chose that time, though.

Edit: others said this first, but I’m still posting because Ezra did have a point

[Ezra]

Hmm, yes, the alternate Sun-based explanation makes at least as much sense. Thanks.

[DanielH]

It's just as well Imperatrix Bella thought it would be tacky to nominate herself for the Nobel Peace Prize; they ignore self-nominations anyway.

[DanielH]

If chiplocking computers won’t work in morph, how do the translation chips?

[Alicorn]

Translation chips: sense data -> brain -> chip -> brain, translation complete.

Chiplocked computer: intention -> chip -> signal to hardware, wait, can't do that part, chip is not in range of hardware.

[kuuskytkolme]

I'm sad about the decreasing possibility of Erik turning up in the Animorphs threads for ...reasons.

(Robots. The reasons are robots.)

[Bluelantern]

What are the traits that make Iobel and other bells so charmed by Elspeth? Or is that purely "she is the only bellkid around" kind of deal?