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[zwol]

I'm reading The Children of Húrin and I keep thinking: gosh, they could have avoided all this if Eru had been willing to share the power of True Creation with Melkor in the first place. I realize that within the mythology, that's a logical impossibility, but from the external perspective, why the heck not?

This in turn leads to a badfic idea in which a being from outside Eru's creation (I want to give it a completely ordinary name, like "Karen") shows up in Arda at some point during the First Age and offers to teach Melkor this, the power he's always truly wanted, if he'll just pack up and leave...