"Well, I can translate while he soaks up English."

And then they have an Elf. "...hello," he says in Quenya, taking in the rather spectacular Wakandan laboratory and the armored man and Loki and Shuri.

"Hi Maedhros! Were you listening in while I talked to Larya? Welcome to an Earth, this is Tony Stark, that's Shuri."

"Yes, and to the language demonstration. This place is very pretty. I'm impressed with the designer."

"I didn't know you'd want the language demo but would've invited you expressly if I'd suspected. How's crypto doing this year in space Arda, I know it's never come up in Valinor but maybe you've had to invent it smart quick for war reasons and got it good?"

"- I'm reluctant to answer that. Why is it relevant?"

"Need to decrypt a thing. We can ask someone else if it's too sensitive."

"I think we'd be happy to attempt to decrypt a thing unless it's bizarrely similar to the Enemy's messaging protocols."

"That would be very surprising. Where should I drop it off, can you do pictures?"

His face is replaced with an image of a bombed-out field.

"Is that your planet? Bit of a fixer-upper."

"It would be convenient for you to learn English if you can do that expediently but I'm reluctant to translate that," Loki tells Maedhros.

He brings his face back. "I do have very easily hurt feelings."

"A regular delicate flower, yes. He says 'is that your planet? Bit of a fixer-upper.' This is not an example of an Earth diplomat, if you were wondering."

"Oh good, one always gets more done when they're the only diplomat in the room. How do I say 'the trees grew back fairly quickly during the first century of bombing runs, but then the Enemy inferred that we might find that reassuring or encouraging, and switched to using some kind of complex defoliant"?"

"I don't actually speak much English, and my translation solution won't let me produce something that sounds like it for you because you don't either. Tony, he wants to know how to say -" She repeats the sentence.

He repeats it. "That's super charming, do you have soil samples -"

"He says 'that's super charming, do you have soil samples'. I did not think to bring any, if you want some I can get them but it seems like a project for later. Maedhros, when I go to this location will someone... scurry up to me and accept tasks, or... what?"

"They'll be monitoring it, you can leave instructions and come back later. They find you nervewracking to be around since it'd be so easy for you to have them tortured for eternity."

"Well, I'm working on that. It's a safe place to leave a thing, bearing in mind that the Enemy definitely mustn't find out that there are other worlds such as by intercepting the thing to be decrypted?"

"It's as safe as anywhere in Endorë is."

"Okay. So if you guys have the diary handy gimme something to write a letter about it in Quenya on and I'll deliver it."

"I'll make a copy, that way we can also take it elsewhere if this isn't getting results fast enough. It self-destructs after three failed attempts but that shouldn't be a problem as long as they copy it a couple million times before trying anything."

"I'll make sure to specify."

"It's pretty standard, I'm sure they'd think of it." She hands Loki a hard drive.