I'm sure it'll be lovely.

It can wait for the moment, though. Was there anything else you want to do today?

Haven't done a batch of experiments. Do you want to come along while I feed Olórin combinations of things?

Love to! He's adorable, isn't he?

He kinda is.

So they head to Lórien. Rúmil tries talking trees into being different kinds of parchment while she works.

And she takes diligent notes on the mostly dud results.

There are, to Olórin's continuing disappointment, no explosions.

What stage is next?

I look at all the results and try to figure out what they mean and creating more elaborate combinations a little less blindly.

And you think that's likely to get interesting results?

I hope so!

I know a number of other people who are interested in learning magic, Bella, Olórin says, if you have any desire to teach it.

There's not much to teach yet, but I could teach some people what I've got.

Aulë might invite you to host a talk for the Maiar and Eldar who work with him, if it's convenient.

Um. She thinks about that. I could probably put together a talk.

Lovely! It's not urgent; let him know in the next few years if it's something you'd be interested in doing.

I might have more interesting things to say in that time.

I'm sure you could also give more than one talk, if there's enough to fill many of them.

I mean, what I could present now would be the scrolls for the spells I started with and the handful of interesting results, that's about it.

It's enough to learn magic from, I expect it'd be interesting. But your choice.

What would I do about the combat spells? I didn't teach them to Fëanáro but if the audience would all be adults...

They might have non-combat applications that we can think of! Especially for us, I doubt many of them would do anything to harm us and if we were involved in a fight with more fragile people we'd just put them very far away from each other.

Yeah, they do have some. Like freezing fruit, although eventually there'll be something better for that in particular. I can include them.