you are a registered voter in a jurisdiction that has elections today, as most or all of the U.S. has state and local elections.

Maybe the Valar did not take the worlds down right after they opened as a reminder to leave your computer and take care of voting. Then again - maybe they did. Do *you* want to risk getting them angry with you?

They do still manifest in the world even in this Age - as witness them putting the ancient histories in the head of the Great Historian so we all could learn what happened in earlier Ages.