If you're within osanwe range of anyone with a palantir that'll do it.

Only if whoever needs me also has sufficiently convenient access to a palantir.

Things on the scale of dragons get seen leaving Angband, or else scouts for a major city notice them.

Things on a scale of dragons aren't the only thing it's come to my attention people might need me for lately.

Lots of the other stuff is not particularly time-dependent, or particularly easy to solve on the spot. If you want to fly around trying to stop individual abuses of power I suppose it makes you stronger and might well be worth it. But things like Beth Miqlat will do a lot more.

I don't want to fly around looking for them, but it would be nice if people could get ahold of me when they happened. Anyway, Beth Miqlat is mostly Illia's project, not mine.

Yes, and it results in a lot of the problems you're concerned with getting solved.

The particular incident I'm thinking of--I'd rather not talk about it right now--wasn't the usual kind of problem to worry about, and it happened in Estolad.

I disagree with my cousins' policy of ignoring nearby human settlements and hoping they don't get themselves into too much trouble.

Yeah, it didn't really pan out. I respect their reasons, but...

I'm not even sure I respect their reasons. It was an abdication of responsibility. 

I would respect their reasons less if these people weren't nervous around you.

My people aren't, though.

I'm not saying they made the right choice.

And I'm not trying to bait you into criticizing them. I think it was a very predictable mistake, you needn't agree, I think it was less costly than mistakes in the opposite direction, but moderation is achievable. Though maybe not for my cousins. Maedhros has a decided tendency to inspire undying loyalty in everyone he interacts with too much.

I'll take your word for it. I liked him but I don't think 'undying loyalty' describes it. And I like Celegorm better.

If he could do it to anybody in the span of a month I'd be more inclined to call it mind control. And you have a Sympathy resistance, right? I feel like that's related. 

Oh, yeah, when Celegorm brought Beor up after denying that he thought of me as a child after I casually assumed as much because you called my sister one I outright told him I was fairly certain I was immune to becoming someone's vassal and changing my name and stuff.

Um.

So this is the House of Beor, mostly, please don't tell them I just said that.

I was not planning to. I haven't even told my cousin it was out of line; what would that help? And it would carry the weight it did as an accusation for entirely the wrong reasons.

Because it would sound like you were accusing him of sleeping with him?

Which would be a grave accusation because he's a male mortal.

Yes, I got that.

Once you're sleeping with men, whether they're consenting men is a detail.

I acknowledge that your culture feels this way and accept that any attempt to change this fact would be unwelcome and unhelpful but do you really think I actually agree or sympathize with it? Because right now it really feels like you're trying to insult my sister under a veneer of politeness.

I find the attitude I just cited very deeply objectionable. I apologize if that didn't come through.