[ Melkor does not laugh, and the levity with which he has spoken before becomes bleached from him. ]
I used to do what The Ship does to people. Over tens of thousands of years, I was the architect of things... similar enough that they would chill you. As the memory of it chills me now. I know how this story ends. I have written it myself a thousand times.
If it took my death, to put all to rights, to undo what has brought us here, I would not hesitate. There is too much I love at stake. If it took killing another, or a score of others, I would do that just as quickly. I know that you have accepted your internment here with a malaise of apathy, but if there is anything you care for on this ship more than you care for yourself, you will rail against it.
I will rail against it. And I will beg or force or trick others into railing against it. There are things worse than simple death, worse than torture or physical pain. And we will all suffer them alike.
I will show that to Thranduil by example, if that it what it takes to earn his effort to this cause. But I had hoped that you would help me need not to sink so far.
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I used to do what The Ship does to people. Over tens of thousands of years, I was the architect of things... similar enough that they would chill you. As the memory of it chills me now. I know how this story ends. I have written it myself a thousand times.
If it took my death, to put all to rights, to undo what has brought us here, I would not hesitate. There is too much I love at stake. If it took killing another, or a score of others, I would do that just as quickly. I know that you have accepted your internment here with a malaise of apathy, but if there is anything you care for on this ship more than you care for yourself, you will rail against it.
I will rail against it. And I will beg or force or trick others into railing against it. There are things worse than simple death, worse than torture or physical pain. And we will all suffer them alike.
I will show that to Thranduil by example, if that it what it takes to earn his effort to this cause. But I had hoped that you would help me need not to sink so far.