...when you suggest that I could get clothes from a shop what would the proprietor of the shop or whoever made the clothes be getting out of that?

They'd have given you clothes when you needed clothes. And enhanced reputation, I suppose.

If I needed new clothes at home, I would go to a shop and I would exchange money for them. Money is a generic store of numericized value which can be traded for near-arbitrary goods and services so that people who sell clothes can then go on to purchase eggs or sofas or whatever strikes their fancy without needing whoever keeps the chickens or assembles the furniture to care about their welfare personally or consider the transaction good advertising in its own right.

That sounds like a very clever way to do things but it'd be hard to implement here because there's an assumption that giving your things away means that you want for nothing.

It'd be hard to make the reverse transition, too. But if random clothiers wish to randomly clothe me I have no reason to complain about that.

They will be happy to, particularly if I am sending you to be clothed.

Then I will not have to wear this outfit for the next learning-to-ride-a-horse period of time, hurray.

You can also in that manner acquire anything else that you need or would like to make your time here more pleasant or joyful or interesting or comfortable.

I don't have the faintest idea how long it takes to learn to ride a horse well enough to do it for three weeks. Especially if the would-be horse-rider has the gross motor skills of a drunk toddler. This seems like it might be relevant to how much stuff I need.

It might take you a few months of regular riding lessons, he agrees. Having seen a lot of drunk toddlers, and taking you at face value on that.

About four times of five I can walk an entire well-paved block without tripping, if no one jostles me and I don't try to accelerate past "sedate".

That is very worrying. Hmm. I could also send someone to Taniquetil and petition that the Valar come here.

If they are portable and this is the sort of thing they can be induced to port over, that would certainly save me some trouble.

They can definitely go wherever they like. One doesn't usually summon them on errands but this seems like a good reason.

I've toyed with the idea of making myself a scooter or something but the six month hike probably is not all suited for rolling along.

We could send you in a wagon, if you'd like that.

'Like' is a strong word, but it'd be safe, at least.

No options leave you in any danger, just inconvenienced. This is the Blessed Realm. No one has died in living memory. A bit of a smile.

Well, that's very nice for you, and I mean that, but since I'm apparently a separate species and did not abruptly un-have my nosebleed when I landed I'm inclined to continue to expect myself to be very much mortal.

Alright. I was not clear what dangers you were fearing; I suppose I cannot promise you safety from falling over your own two feet. Do songs for grace help?

...This may be a thing we do not have where I'm from, assuming they could help more than by being generally encouraging or something.

They can definitely help more than that! If you are good at them you can do all kinds of dramatic magic.

We don't have music that does magic! At all!

Then I do not think you are from the Outer Lands.

Apparently!