"Little bird told me."

"Anyway, yeah, one's loose, we're sort of academically curious how evil he is at this point, when does that start?"

"...he was at least apprised of everything that went on in Utumno. It wasn't, like, his thing - orcs were Melkor's passion project - but he, like, had a go at seeing if you could get Elves to have half-Maiar children, that kind of thing..."

"...did that fail in spite of Lúthien as proof of concept or are some running around?"

"Can't get the Elves not to abort, I think? I was not involved, because the fuck."

"Congratulations. Why couldn't they abort when it was orcs?"

"That's a normal pregnancy, you just make the mother forget."

"Ah. Anyway. Thanks."

"Yeah. Have fun."

"This one's not looking like much fun but we'll try."

"Need help? On anything except deciding if you can murder with abandon?"

"You any good at murdering with abandon?"

"...yep but, like, worse at it than Sauron, unless you've got a way to surprise him and assuming he hasn't picked up new tricks."

"Oh well. Thanks anyway."

And this information is propagated to the peal and Elspeth takes a moment to earwire the Telperion Valar in case they were curious.

They think that's terrible, thank you Loki for checking.

...Boots starts working on an anti-teleportation spell that could be cast on Sauron and is specific to wizardry teleportation so he can still be moved by other means.

Good skill. How long -

Few weeks, but we can't move the planet and can't guarantee being able to catch him inclined to stay substantial so it's not a complete solution.

Can we move everyone else off the planet and then black hole it?

Don't have a way to target the people over the whole thing in one go, not-in-one-go would constitute warning, and anyway if Vulcan and Afterlife are anything to go by they'd probably object to losing their animals and stuff.

Probably. I suppose we can still find him if he does leave between now and then.

Yeah, and he doesn't know we know he's bad news, or that we can find him.

And he is a Maia, he's not aiming to do harm on a short-term scale or he could have already done a lot of it -

He's not even being particularly corrupt as politics goes far as we can tell.

Didn't the Space one get elected orc president without even rigging it? Maybe they get off on at least one thing that is not inherently evil.