" - don't remember. I was at the wedding but I was four."

"And you, what, just forgot his name?"

"I don't remember literally every person I've ever met!"

"You poor thing! I should get Curufinwë to make you something for memory."

"Do you remember literally everyone you ever met?"

"I have big chunks of memory missing from Angband. But I'm pretty sure that I used to."

"Huh. Well, let's see where we can get on Thingol."

Miranda attempts to find out whether the house elves have any children and/or any war-relevant capabilities they can bust out.

They take a lot of convincing to tell her but they do have children! Four of them! In anticipation of Michael and Rebecca needing at least three for their house and Minor and Miranda needing two and - "it was not looking like many of the young masters were going to be marrying decent families with elves, mistress -"

They can't think of war-relevant capabilities but can answer more specific questions than that.

They should be advised that the Enemy has some unfortunate dispositions re: children. Can they do anything wardlike to the house to replace what was damaged or augment what's left? How far in general can their capabilities stretch past chores when the safety of the family is at stake?

They can do transport! They would have less idea than the wizards where to start on the wards. They will warn their children about this concern but the children are magically bound to the Ways and couldn't harm them anyway!

Karen is not a Way yet and there are also all those Quendi who should also not be harmed. How much transport can they do?

They could take a handful of people with them each.

How far, where to?

They haven't tried leaving Britain before, let alone with passengers, but anywhere within that, probably.

...they are currently not within Britain at all. Can they take people to Britain. From here.

They try!

No!

Can they get there alone with a message -?

They try that too. Still no.

Damn. Okay, they should give Karen some hair samples since she's attempting exotic potions substitutions, and be advised that they are not getting groceries any time in the foreseeable future and should stretch and duplicate what they've got as far as it will go so they can help feed the Quendi too, and if there are voices in their children's heads they should make sure they don't do what the voices say, and if they think of any way their powers could be useful wrt this list of strategic concerns they should let someone know immediately - could they distinguish real and illusion Ways -

They think they could! 

That could be useful, they can set up a test with Macalaurë who does illusion music.

They'd be happy to. They give her hair samples for Karen's potion-replacement experimenting.

House elf hair does not work for any of the essential potions Karen tries. Huan's hair works for some stuff. Can she try Quendi hair?

No!