Yeah, that's a problem. They might as well do it anyway while ships are being built, to slow the problem down, but.

Maybe the Teleri will loan them some ships, so they don't have to spend time building them and running down their supplies.

That'd be nice.

Fëanáro gives his speech again. The Teleri are not impressed. They will not loan ships. They will not help build ships. They will not allow access to any information about how ships are built.

What. Why.

They think the Noldor are impulsive and overreacting and that if they take a few Years' breather they'll see the folly of defying the Valar.

Is this a problem that could be solved by virtue of We Have Extradimensional Magic And They Don't Know That, so they're not working on complete information when they say we can't do it and we were not, in fact, forbidden to leave?

"By all means have a go. Olwe's being - well, most Elves are like that, actually. 'why not in a year'? People in Endore are dying! And even if not for that - I just. want. to. get. out..."

"I'll try it," she sighs.

The buildings in Alqualonde are stone, Noldorin make. The Teleri hadn't really cared, had lived in driftwood huts on the shore, but Finwe, still grieving his old friend, had been bothered - had asked to build the remnant of Elwe's people real and sturdy homes.

They're pretty even in the dark. Almost all of them overlook the water.

Great, so...should she also try to write a speech, or try to find Olwe, or what?

Speeches didn't seem to get them anywhere. Olwe's not hard to find - there's a palace - but he's not hearing audiences at the moment.

Why not?

He thinks tempers are running high and people saying things they don't mean, and if the Noldor give themselves a few weeks to calm down then people will be less likely to say something regrettable.

If in a few weeks the Noldor still want to build ships is he likely to think that this is the result of actually wanting this thing and not just being over-excited?

Yes, but their desire would remain unwise.

Okay, but what if the Valar are under-informed? You may have noticed she is not an elf. She's from another universe, and has weird extradimensional magic that she would be happy to demonstrate, and it gets stronger over time, and they only ever met one Vala and didn't mention their magic at the time.

Killing a Vala isn't even possible. Even the other Valar couldn't do it. The course the Noldor have set themselves is utterly hopeless. It would be assisted suicide to help them with the boats.

Okay, so killing a Vala isn't possible, but what about helping people evacuate?

 Fëanáro did not sound like that was what he had planned. If in a few months they've settled themselves to an evacuation mission, Olwe will hear them out.

Noted.

She heads back to camp.

They'll hear us out if we take a couple of weeks or months to pretend to calm down and claim we're trying to evacuate people instead of trying to kill Melkor, because they don't believe that's possible. I don't think they know Idaia and I don't swear binding oaths, so if need be we can swear falsely that that's the case.

Well, that's something.

A couple weeks or months - if only we know how bad things are in Endorë, whether we can afford that -

As opposed to?

If we arrive in time to be reinforcements to the local population, we can benefit from their expertise about the land, about what to eat, maybe even about fighting, they will have had to do more of it even if we have much better technology.

If we arrive after the locals are all dead, the Enemy can fire on us as the boats reach the shore, we'll have to fight to establish ourselves before we can even build any walls to live behind...

I mean, what can we do besides waiting a month.