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theoppositeofprofound · 2 years

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7th Age Valinor Concept: devaluation of the Silmaril. Some brilliant baby or simply the combined effort of years of knowledge cracks the code on Silmaril technology and suddenly they can be made en masse. Because the Two Trees are dead and Varda isn’t handing out blessings anymore, the new Silmarils aren’t quite as stunning as the ogs, the same way mass produced tech is never as fancy as the prototypes. Less psychically devastating hope beam and more sexy SAD lamp. Those bright white beams they put on new cars. Every elf under 3000 has a hi wattage ultra diamond or three on them and their elders can’t decide if it’s horrifically disrespectful or so voiddamned funny.

#the silmarillion #baby elf with a silmaril knockoff around their neck ‘yeah I don’t see the point why did those old guys go to war anyway?’#‘mine are actually a little bigger :)’#their grandfather about to launch into one of Peepaw’s Special Little Rants #anyway Elwing commissions them just to use them as doorstops #someone in Valinor invents LED lights and a religious schism ensues #rip Tolkien elves! you would have liked light pollution so much #until you realized it made it harder to see the stars #seventh age Valinor a glittering neon metropolis with the equivalent of a year round Christmas light display #but everything has to be turned OFF after two hours so we can appreciate varda’s good work #blackout curtains in every house timers on every street lamp

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