So how'd you get here?

The answer you are looking for may be either 'I have no fucking clue' or 'a bizarre monster that looked like a snake with a full-length mirror for a face ate me and apparently that causes people to land in strange worlds'."

Ah! I was looking for the second answer, it's more exciting. Welcome to Tirion. How are you liking it? I can't stand the place personally.

It is way, way, too bright, which is why I put shades over my eyes. And apparently our species have mutually disturbing traits. But it seems pretty nice overall.

I've been considering tracking down the inventor of storks and seeing if they'll take help filling out the ranks. I understand why they'd do it anonymously but they could clearly use a little more servantmaker labor on the project. I'm not best suited to detective work but it might be doable.

Why would they do it anonymously?

Uh, control of where children go could get intensely political very fast. If you control storks and you don't like some city-state or some culture or some ideological minority, bam, suddenly you have dramatically more kids than they do, maybe they don't have any, you don't have to lift another finger, they're out of population in a few decades.

Well your world's a horror show isn't it. Huh. Okay. Too bad none of us can do servant-making. I take it we can't just personally raise the kids.

There's too many of them, even if you assume absolute convenience of transport. It would also be a major project to raise them in such a way that you could put them back in my civilization so it didn't collapse, but apparently you'd all be up for that, it's just the numbers that don't work.

Yeah, I mean, we're not letting kids die because it'd be an awful lot of work for that to never ever happen. Huh. Okay. Someone should ride out and get the Valar.

I think that is the plan.

I'll go. If you haven't sent someone already.

Kib does not know if someone has been sent already. (Pet bird. Pet pet.)

He'll miss the results of this bird experiment.

Oh, will that not be done today?

It'll be done in a few minutes, but he just ran off.

So we can tell him the result when you're done.

Oh, you're long-range telepathic. I guess that must be handy.

It is how I was ordering music copied and guest rooms made available and telling him to meet us at the gates in the first place. It's very useful.

Freaked me way out at first but maybe I'm not leaking any more?

I think I am mostly only hearing things you are directing at me. If you want I can learn the language and then you can just ask people not to listen to you.

Are languages really easy for your species or something, you make that sound really trivial.

We're the Noldor, linguistics is something of a national hobby and/or art form. I would enjoy learning your language and will need it eventually if I want to help fix everything awful in your world.