I thought you didn't have population control.

Elves don't have children in wartime. Enemy could get in their heads, get them to swear magically binding oaths... 

What if you had them with a human? Since supposedly they're interfertile.

Then someday they'll die.

Oh.

Of course, that can happen anyway. But. At least you're not knowing the minute your baby is born that someday you will bury them.

Wasn't really thinking about that at the time. ...bury them?

Well, she'll outlive you, right? Unless something goes wrong? That doesn't seem as bad, to me. We bury our dead. Is that not what you do?

Most parts of the planet cremate them...

Huh. Fëanáro's family said he crumbled to ash when he died but I think that's just - poetic license. Most people you bury.

Who does that?

If the family - isn't up to it - I guess their friends would probably help?

...so they dig the hole but who puts the body in it?

...I haven't really been to very many funerals. Whoever, uh, is coping all right and making sure things happen? Some humans have, like, pallbearers, I think.

Amentans consider dead bodies unclean.

Unclean?

Um, that touching them is bad and makes you dirty.

Interesting. Well. It's been a long time, does that help?

Uh, I think so.

Is there something we should do to make you comfortable?

Um, the other unclean things are people's waste and garbage.

I guess you should pick a human village that has plumbing?

They don't all have plumbing?

No? There are a lot of humans.

There are thirteen billion Amentans and literally all of them have plumbing unless they are camping.