Enemy confirmed dead. Uh, we're resettling orcs on another planet and it's taking a while because she has to move them in batches. After that we can go looking for non-Angband orcs, but in the meantime if there's anything useful I should be doing with wish-granting or talking about Earth technology while Lúthien's busily teleporting...

Are you getting prisoners out of Angband? Because that's going to be challenging logistically and emotionally, unless you kill them all in which case only challenging emotionally. Maybe someone can wish to set up something like Lorien for them. Maedhros, do you have people who should be usefully put on Earth technology -

Yes, he says, definitely, though I think we should just import it as a stopgap while we learn it, it might take decades. 

Don't have a plan for prisoners yet. What's Lorien? And me and Lúthien as Earth-goods-transport bottlenecks has some obvious drawbacks, there should be more people capable of doing that but there's serious culture differential anyone here handling it will need to be prepped for lest they encounter any form of human fiction not intended for three-year-olds or something.

Luthien might be atypically sheltered.

Possible. Most Elves going to be okay with TV dramas in which people cheat on their spouses and pull each other's hair?

Findekano -

Yeah, he says. People would in fact care. We can recommend ones who'd bounce back quickly but they'd get disconcerted.

So maybe humans should do the transit and be trained in cultural sensitivity or something, I think Elves are way less likely to shock Earthlings than the other way around. I can probably find somebody who wanted to be an astronaut but didn't qualify or something with plenty of oomph for it.

Good idea. Or artists or architects who want to come see our cities, they'll be so much prettier now that it's peacetime.

I'd probably check anthropologists before artists but either might work, yeah.

Alright. Can I wish us both better attentional capacity and eidetic memory? It'll help with the war and it'll help Maedhros, the Enemy took a lot of his memories towards unclear ends.

In theory yes, in practice I want to be real careful about anything that might give somebody efficient mind-control powers and that might. I'm against them in general, it's a fluke Lúthien's song is too useful to pass up. If you don't want to be a magic rock then that sounds fine though.

I will happily swear never to use mind-control powers, or if you think they might occasionally be useful for helping people who've been coerced into oaths or something, never to use them without advance written consent of the subject or whoever has the right to consent to medical procedures on their behalf. I might not hate the Enemy  quite as intensely as Maedhros but I saw what he did.

I don't know how they'd interact with oaths but now you mention it that's probably a good enough reason to have somebody around capable of trying the experiment.

Is your Sindarin good enough or do we need to fetch Luthien to translate? "I swear never to use mind-control powers on anyone without the informed consent of the subject or the person authorized to make medical decisions on their behalf." 

Missing a couple vocabulary words.

Want to go ask someone about them? I'm assuming Maedhros doesn't count as a trustworthy neutral party.

Maedhros is in fact sort of huddled in the corner trembling.

Not exactly - uh, are you okay -?

I think he should be the person who gets possible mind-affecting powers, in case they do something for oaths, but I am going to be so scared around him once he has mind control powers so I'm trying to work on that. I'm fine and endorse the decisions you both are making.

It's inefficient mana expenditure but you can fend off mind stuff if you too are a magi.

I don't think there's even the slightest chance he'd ever hurt me, even without the oath he just swore, which was very bindingly phrased. It's just the idea. I hadn't thought to confront it. I'll be all right in a moment.

...okay. Lemme see if I have vocabulary notes that cover what I was missing...

She pulls out a notebook to see if Lúthien ever used the words she didn't know such that Bella could write them down.

Informed consent, authorized, and medical did not really come up.

Yeah, still need to check those. She scribbles down transliterations.

Of course. Do you have a way to summon Luthien?