"I'm pretty good with the one hand. Let me know when you're ready to think about bringing back the dead and ending the war, that's more my area of expertise."

"Okay. I suppose I can also just do it myself whenever there's a gate, if you haven't decided to be obliterated by then." When Sauron has let everybody go she sends him to go wait where she left him before.

"Do you want to address the prisoners, or do you want me to? Or should we wait until we tell them what we're doing about orcs?"

"...You probably know more about what this brand of prisoners wants to hear than I do. I'm not sure what to do about orcs yet."

"Easiest thing would be to relocate them to a continent with no Elves or Men, hope that by the time they invent transoceanic sailing the old wounds on both sides will have healed. Is there a continent with no Elves or Men? If not, Eru can raise one out of the ocean."

Is there an uninhabited continent?

No.

"Continents are all inhabited. Having him raise a continent seems like it would have side effects if I didn't know enough about how continents worked or something."

"And if he were inclined to fuck things up. He knows how to do it without side effects, it's how Valinor came around. ...you could relocate everyone in Valinor here and all the orcs to Valinor."

"Valinor is perfectly safe and everything is edible and it's meant to be a paradise. A million orcs used to taking orders from Melkor, or dead since who-knows-when, are more in need of that than we are. Everyone in Valinor will be super annoyed to end up here but annoyed is all, the Eldar aren't innately inclined to war and we know how to build cities and agriculture and so forth."

"What about the Valar, would I have to order them around not to make trouble with this plan?"

"There's no way you're bringing back any of the dead without giving the Valar orders. Or, I guess, ordering Eru to tell them you have his permission."

"...Okay, but that isn't what I asked."

"Yes, they will object to anyone except Elves who they've vetted for purity being permitted in Valinor. I think it's worth it anyway because it's the most cut-off from the other continents, hard for accidental contact to occur, aforementioned paradise considerations, and that Valinor has psychological healing attributes which I think the orcs are, of all Arda's peoples, most in need of."

Do you anticipate any problems from my perspective with implementing that plan?

Moving the Elves will cause political instability internal to the Elves which is hard to predict but unlikely to kill anyone and vanishingly unlikely to kill more than seven people. Elves outside Valinor eventually fade. You could ask me to change that about them.

Promise relays this to Maedhros.

Maedhros' expression quirks at the 'seven people'. "The Silmarils prevent Elves from fading but if he can do it that'd be great."

"Does it matter very much where on the continent the Elves go?"

"Cuivienen would be the natural place to put them. But no."

Arrange that Elves will not fade. As described and without extraneous side effects I seem likely to find inconvenient translocate orcs to comfortable parts of Valinor and Elves to comfortable places on this continent.

Done. Dead orcs and Elves alike are still in the Halls of Mandos.

"Any strong reason to be really selective about bringing people out of the Halls of Mandos?"

"I can think of a few specific cases, though we could probably mediate them by means less complicated than death. Oh. Tell Eru to change marriages. My grandmother is in the Halls of Mandos forever because her husband remarried and it was impermissible for a man to have two living wives."