Sigh. So lacking near-term solutions for that fiasco... about the dead people...

Elspeth explained that having unworthiness to return to life as a criteria was going to make people very sad! We still had to keep the orcs dead because of their oaths, but maybe if Melkor has skipped the dimension there's a way to do it...

I can fix oaths. My solution for oaths is unfortunately broad-spectrum free-will dispensing that doesn't recognize a salient difference between orcs and Elves, although I might be able to hack something together if I teleported all the orcs to another world and de-oathed them there, some of the Elves were upset about the free will in the last Arda.

That would solve that problem. There might still be too many resentment for Elves and orcs to live peaceably together.

And you want Elves to keep their oaths; for example, the Noldorin King is sworn to stop being evil and if you gave him free will he'd probably return to being evil.

Huh? Maitimo? Is sworn? To stop being evil?

That was Elspeth's condition for helping him defeat the Enemy, as we understand it.

In the other Ardas there is something of a Noldorin public relations problem over most principally Alqualondë and immediately surrounding events but if there is concern he will "go back to" being evil that seems likely not to be the problem.

I think she was principally but not solely concerned about his conduct towards his cousin. Who he took as a consort.

...evilly?

Very much so. He chained him to a wall and kept him under mind-affecting oaths.

I see. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

And she collapses back into Maitimo's throne room and turns her Allspeak off and addresses Cam and then disappears to find the Elentári Macalaurë.

...Cam gives Maitimo a dubious look.

"Has something else gone disastrously wrong?"

"Possibly. She's figuring it out."

"Does she have a timeline on that? I should probably notify people that the war's over, begin demobilization -"

"Oh, wouldn't expect her to be gone longer than half an hour and if something holds her up she'll let me know."

"Thank you. I will get back to work, then - anything I can get you in the meantime?"

"No, I can make arbitrary matter and teleport, I'm all set. If you've been rationing or something I can be a food supply?"

"That'd be extremely useful, actually - the fallout clouds destroyed a lot of land - I can name some things right now and will have Findekáno draw up something more comprehensive, he's been handling logistics..."

"Sure, I just need to know where you want it."

He sends a location, lists the inventory for the typical shipment to the mortal settlements - "can you do railway lines too? An enduring postwar ambition of mine has been to put in railway lines..."

"Those are harder because they have to stick into the ground to be stable and if I do that naively without knowing the terrain something's going to be not so stable. I could maybe do something suspended above the ground but Loki's probably going to round the planet so it should wait for that."

"She mentioned that. Uh, why is she going to do that?"

"Flat planets irritate her. They're kind of stupid and she wound up developing a lot of irritation at the 'stupid flat planet' while she was stuck on one," says Cam, "they need magic to hold together and do gravity and so on. Won't even annoy the Valar, because Eru told them off for making it flat."

"Fair enough. Oh, Findekáno!" He'd told him the truth. There are alternate universes, with alternate versions of me. I very much want to work with you to make sure they all have setups that are - okay - but I have no idea how destabilizing it'd be for it to come out that the kings of many many different empires spanning four dimensions are keeping a secret like you. 

I promise I was not going to go rushing into the arms of the first interdimensional visitor.

I know you weren't. Thank you.

Promise me you won't share me?

Assuming my alts give me the choice, I get the sense they're much more powerful. 

Resignedly. They'll help you get me secured, not try to poach.

Depending on how precisely they're me, but yeah, probably. I love you. When you are secured things will be the same except I'll worry less.