Cam searches the corpus for newspapers.

There are newspapers reporting the refusal of the Elves to talk or cease firing the rockets. 

"How sure are you the newspapers are honest?"

"Before the war they always were. Journalists are supposed to take oaths to always report as accurate an understanding of the situation as they can. 

There have been a lot of bylines changed lately. 

The rockets I saw myself, the wreckage I saw myself. And the presence of a way to stop our souls from being tortured by the Elf-gods Melkor swore to, with a hundred thousand witnesses."

"I definitely believe that stuff blew up. I am not sure I believe it was Elves. And it sounds like Melkor could get a lot of mileage out of a very little truth."

"You think someone not the Elves launched rockets at us from the Elves' territory?"

"Or made it look like that's where they came from, can't Maiar do illusions?"

"They can."

"Are you by any chance under oaths that would prevent you from taking this information to its logical conclusion."

"I don't think I can answer that question."

"I continue to not be an Elf, does that help."

"If you were an Elf I'd be trying to kill you. I - the question you asked. I don't think I can answer it. Not won't."

"Do your kids have this problem too."

"Not Olia, she's too young to talk."

"Does she have a milestone of some kind coming up that you can perhaps excitedly tell me about."

"When I was a kid I didn't even know Melkor existed. So when we did First Choice in church - my church was very liberal, it was more of a coming-of-age thing - and the words aren't even in our language - I was more focused on getting the pronunciation right with everyone watching me. Once the war started it got more serious and now children are taken away if they don't get a proper supervised First Choice."

oh fuck these poor fucking orcs

"Do you happen to know what the words mean?"

"I do now."

"Would it - affect anything - if you told me, does it obey the use-mention distinction..."

"Recently they had everyone swear not to share that kind of information with outsiders."

"Who counts as an outsider."

"Non-orcs?"

"You don't know that I'm not an orc."

"...it seems really unlikely you're an orc."

"Yes, I will grant that it must seem really unlikely."

...text of First Choice oath, all extant variants/translations/etc.?