That is very unfortunate but I'm not sure what else they would have done under these conditions.

They could have stayed in the Elflands and let us be.

Not all of them were ever there to begin with.

Well, the ones who were could have stayed and the others could have gone.

Maybe you could go somewhere else, suggests Bella.

Where else?

Another planet, maybe. I'm from another planet myself. Most planets don't have Elves on them.

Good for them!

Would you like that if I found you a planet without any Elves there and brought you all to it?

Yeah!

Okay. This might take a while. Can you leave the Elves alone if they leave you alone for a while?

No, we have to kill Elves.

You clearly do not have to be doing it literally every minute.

If we raced outside now they'd just shoot us. You're allowed to wait for a more opportune moment to kill Elves. You aren't allowed to just not do it for a while.

Are you allowed to decide that this isn't an opportune moment because I will be mad if you go attack them?

If you'd kill us if we attacked them, and we wouldn't even get to kill any, then yeah.

How much does it help if I go turn some of them into magic rocks who just look like Elves?

...we don't have to attack magic rocks that look like Elves.

Do you have to attack people who might be magic rocks that look like Elves.

...we have to try to figure out whether they're Elves?

It's really hard to tell.

Well, then we'll have to get really clever.

Lúthien, does your teleportation let you find them a planet or should we be interviewing people to see if any of them feel really strongly about Planet Orc?

She tries to go to a nice planet that'd be a good safe place for orcs to live and that doesn't have anyone living on it.

Well, here's someplace. The air's breathable. The plants are weird looking but do not attack her or anything.