[ pleased, at least, that he's grasped it and following the conversation. ]
No. I will bring no knowledge of this place to Arda should I depart. The doorway only allows passage through, not back. We cannot affect change in Arda any longer, only Thedas.
Did you witness the Men's struggles over your father's palantíri during your lifetime?
That is so for me whether I am here or within the Halls. (It will be great fun facing the Valar after all he has done. He looks forward to it. Not.)
They occurred outside of my scope, but I heard of them. (More people dying for things. Fëanor cannot be blamed fully. Greed touched everyone who desired the objects; greed and a ridiculous hunger for power.)
Perhaps you will be reembodied, perhaps not. But it does not matter to the you speaking with me now. We will never see Arda again.
And because we will never see Arda again, because the things we create here may well outlast us, because Men squabble here and now over what our kin the Elvhen left behind, three thousand years later, I asked for an accounting of what you made should you leave us.
I packed Galadriel's clothes and some of her writings in a cedar chest when she departed; I burned what did not fit lest they fall into unworthy hands. I have done this thing six times for those dear to me. I have arranged to have it done should I not be found in my bed tomorrow morning or the morning a month hence. If you mistake my preparedness for greed you forget the lesson you yourself taught my lord king and all his court.
(He is taken aback. Maedhros is understandably accustomed - too accustomed - to fighting for what he sees as just. Accordingly, he is usually fighting himself and the Darkness he called upon himself by taking the Oath and facing Morgoth.)
The swords and the armor will be difficult to dismantle. Anything left behind by Kano or Elros will be taken care of by either myself or Fingon. Should we disappear, you will know where to find the belongings. I will prepare a chest or two for us and make you a key for the locks.
crystal.
(He empathizes with them, but for Thranduil to speak so callously before is not something he willingly accepts.)
crystal.
No. I will bring no knowledge of this place to Arda should I depart. The doorway only allows passage through, not back. We cannot affect change in Arda any longer, only Thedas.
Did you witness the Men's struggles over your father's palantíri during your lifetime?
crystal.
Not.)They occurred outside of my scope, but I heard of them. (More people dying for things. Fëanor cannot be blamed fully. Greed touched everyone who desired the objects; greed and a ridiculous hunger for power.)
crystal.
And because we will never see Arda again, because the things we create here may well outlast us, because Men squabble here and now over what our kin the Elvhen left behind, three thousand years later, I asked for an accounting of what you made should you leave us.
I packed Galadriel's clothes and some of her writings in a cedar chest when she departed; I burned what did not fit lest they fall into unworthy hands. I have done this thing six times for those dear to me. I have arranged to have it done should I not be found in my bed tomorrow morning or the morning a month hence. If you mistake my preparedness for greed you forget the lesson you yourself taught my lord king and all his court.
crystal.
The swords and the armor will be difficult to dismantle. Anything left behind by Kano or Elros will be taken care of by either myself or Fingon. Should we disappear, you will know where to find the belongings. I will prepare a chest or two for us and make you a key for the locks.
crystal.
I appreciate your understanding.
Re: crystal.
I understand your reasoning and you are right. My family has caused enough wars.