"Does that require verifying? He created orcs."

"I don't know what an orc actually is, I'm from another dimension."

"Well, you could go snatch one out from their forced suicide rushes of our defenses and ask it. It might actually be grateful."

"Do they speak this language?"

"No, but osanwe works. Oh, right."

"Yep."

"I don't have suggestions on reading materials, sorry. You could talk to released prisoners of the Enemy?"

"Do you have any handy?"

"No, they beg you to kill them and we do it. There might be transcripts somewhere."

"If you could get me the titles?"

"Requests for assisted suicide and destruction of backup, Menegroth Department of Foreign Policy..."

Cam makes a note. "Thank you. Do you have any material in or on the subject of the orcs' language that I could use to get translation going on that?"

"Some of them speak ours. Before the war we had, like, trade relationships and tourism and so forth."

"But you don't know theirs?"

"I don't personally. I bet some people do but they wouldn't want to volunteer it, and most of the people who visited their cities right before the war did not come back."

"...what I need is ideally a corpus of writing in their language, not a tutor."

"I'm afraid I don't know. I'm sorry."

"Could you ask someone who would know. Please."

"I have been conveying all your requests throughout the conversation and am also conveying all the information I get in response. There are no suggestions forthcoming."

"Right. Telepathy. Thank you anyway. Anything else I should know, or look into? It has been suggested that I should just evacuate the Dwarves and then destroy the planet but apparently Dwarves don't advertise their location except there are some here?"

"There are some Dwarves here. Please don't destroy the planet; it wouldn't destroy the Enemy, I don't think, and not everyone here desires to live in Valinor."

"How would the Enemy survive the planet being destroyed?"

"I don't know. Oh, revise that: Melian says there are ways of destroying the planet that would permanently trap ever Maia on it, including her and the Enemy and several tens of thousands of others, and those would make it impossible for him to again act in the world. There are other ways that they'd recover from. So it depends."

"Go-to for planet destruction is black hole."

"She is confident that'd kill every Maia on the planet; the Enemy might be able to react fast enough, if he were expecting it."