Cataclysmic transitions create windows where rigid ancient laws become flexible enough to honor exceptional individuals. At the end of Tolkien's Third Age, the Valar bent their centuries-old exclusion of Dwarves from Valinor precisely because the world itself had fundamentally changed. Rules exist to serve a stable order; when the order transforms, the rules must follow or be applied with discretion.
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