Yes?

:...We found Maitimo. We have, er, a kind of unbelievably weird and messy situation with a lot of other factors and we could desperately use your advice, if you're willing to come: 

Of course. Sigh. Let me guess, Telumë is having a breakdown about having to kill him.

:Er, no, it's actually about ten times weirder than that. We haven't made a decision yet to kill him, partly because we might have a new resource and partly because – gods, this is ridiculous to explain, can you just come?: 

I'm on my way.

As soon as he catches up, Vanyel raises another Gate back to Arda. :Elrond, I've got him, can you just, er, catch him up a bit?: 

He's my great-grandfather's brother and died in battle years before I was born. I will...try.

:I can explain about us arriving here but I think you'll do better explaining where we are right now: 

Sure. 

Welcome to Imladris. It is a Noldorin city in Middle-earth; it is the Third Age, and has been more than five thousand years since the Darkening of Valinor.

I see. 

Do we win?

The Valar intervened after about five hundred years but almost everyone was dead by then. In my timeline. Yours seems off-track from when Leareth arrived.

I will have to thank him, he says, sounding very slightly irritated about this.

He explained about the, uh, marriage situation. Actually Maedhros explained about it and then he - rebutted some of Maedhros's claims about other things as having been motivated by Maedhros being sworn to the service of Sauron and did not rebut the marriage-related ones. 

Right. Okay. If you were born after the war and I didn't survive it I take it we haven't met? In your timeline?

We have not. But my grandmother was your niece - Itarillë - born in Valinor -

Oh! Well, you'll have to meet her. - once the war's over, probably. Is Sauron dead in this world?

No. But I can hold Imladris against him. 

How many Noldor are there outside Valinor.

About ten thousand. 

Ten thousand?

Like I said. Most people were dead by the time the Valar intervened. And they haven't permitted much subsequent emigration either. I don't think it'll be a conventional war, with Sauron -

It won't be but there is something we could have used half a million of our people for.

This place is beautiful. 

Thank you.

Did you know Maedhros.

Our fathers didn't get along. Is he here?

Yes. He swore himself into contradictory oaths and they're - planning to take him to the other Velgarth or something. Because Mandos doesn't know what to do with oaths.