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[pedromvilar]

15:26 pedro|work fucking _melkor_

^ my words exactly @ IRC

[anthusiasm]

Same wavelength!

[DanielH]

Around 700 nm (bright red), to be specific.

[Shoal]

Melkor is why we can't have nice things

[jalapeno_dude]

Melkor is why we can't have nice things

That's giving Eru way too much credit (or I guess way too little, depending on your perspective).

[DanielH]

Eru is why we can have any things, nice and otherwise, including Melkor.

I am concerned about Red Rash and think there is an obvious-in-hindsight reason for why it didn’t stop when Melkor left.

Where is Mairon?

[AndaisQ]

"Oh," Nienna says, "we can all communicate instantaneously with all of the other Ainur, we share as much of ourselves as we wish with them and nearly everyone leaves their senses open to everyone else. So of course Melkor can communicate with his old allies on Endorë."

"I see," [Macalaure] says. "Thank you so much for mentioning that."

I lost my absolute shit at this line. Thank you based Lintamande.

[Unbitwise]

(If there are orcs and orfs are there also ords and ores?)

[Ezra]

I assumed an Orf was what would be an Elk if the word Elk hadn't already been taken.

[DanielH]

Do you have a clearer idea where the use/mention distinction for oaths is? I think it’s safe to say, “The Feanorians swore the following oath: ‘Be he friend or foe...’.”. I don’t know if it’s safe to respond “‘I do solemnly swear to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States’” without preamble but in direct answer to a question about US law. I doubt it’s safe to say “‘I swear to do what you say for the next five minutes’?!” in a slightly incredulous tone when asked to swear a foolish oath, especially if you think there’s any chance they’ll take it as an oath instead of a quotation.

Although I only doubt this last one, not fully believe it is false; it seems like one of the most plausible explanations for Beka’s behavior.