Just out of friendliness, though if the birds would pass them stories and tell them about new neighbors that'd be good.

They can definitely do that!

Cool! How far do the birdfolk fly? What's the surrounding area like?

Pretty far? Not, like, months away, usually, but a group that decides to go exploring will usually be gone for weeks. There's a big riverbed that gets water in the wet season out to the east, and desert to the east and south, and if you go far enough north there's forest but you have to go really far, and the mountains where the goblins live are to the west, and west but not that far west and a little north is the ravenfolks' village.

Cool! They try drawing a map.

The birdfolk offer corrections as enthusiastically as they do everything else, and it comes together quickly.

The Noldor really like birdfolk. They can make a copy of the map for them to keep, if they'd like.

They would be really pleased with that! They have some maps already but the Noldor's is really pretty!

Quendi care a lot about prettiness! Here's a copy of the map.

Awesome! They pass it around a bit and then somebody takes it down to the library.

Oooh, can they see the library?

Sure!

The library is tucked away behind the art gallery, and it's not very big at all, just a couple hundred books. Most of them are descriptions of the surrounding environment, or accounts of historical events, or instructions for crafting or aerobatics or gardening or other things. One wall is devoted to storing scrolls, mostly various sorts of records - of agreements with the ravenfolk, of agreements between flock members, of various events that they might want record of but that aren't interesting enough to have an entire book written about them, and so on. There's also a section of the scroll wall devoted to maps; their map goes there, though the birdfolk seem to think that someone will make a frame for it sooner or later.

The Noldor are fascinated by their alphabet!

It's the way it is so they can write in it! They don't have as much rage of motion in their wrists because of how that joint has to also support the last section of their wings, so they have trouble making some of the loopy shapes that other alphabets use.

Here's the sounds the letters make! All the really simple books are up by the hatchery but someone could fetch a few down if they want something to practice with?

Oh, that'd be lovely!

Somebody goes to do that! Somebody else digs up a book in the alphabet most animalfolk use - it's also in the trade language rather than the one they usually use between themselves - and they show them how that goes.

They have an enthralled audience.

They only have a few books in the trade language, but they're happy to find them for the Quendi to look at!

Sure! The Quendi take notes, extensively.

Tengwar are also very pretty, too bad they're full of loopy bits. The birdfolk are still interested in learning to read them, though, of course, and keep interrupting themselves and each other to ask questions about them.

They can attempt a modification with fewer loopy bits, that must be a very frustrating constraint -

Oooooo.

Here's how the range of motion limitation works, here's what they can do easily, here's what they can do with difficulty, here's what they can't do at all, here's feedback about their ideas...

Oooh! They can totally figure something out to let them write in something recognizably tengwar.

Oooooooo.

They set about practicing the proposed letters, in between everything else.

...eventually they should probably get home.