"That's good."

Nod.

"If you have technology useful for stealth that'd be useful - there's only one place we can destroy the Ring -"

"...it's not a going development concern. Speed, though, that I could do -"

"Might help. But it's essential to get in unnoticed."

"I certainly can't turn anyone invisible. What sort of - noticing apparatus - is set up in this location?"

"It's called Mount Orodruin, and it's squarely in the middle of Mordor - Sauron's empire. There are orcs everywhere. He can probably personally pay attention anywhere if he pleases. We expect he'd notice if Elves entered, and definitely Maiar."

"It - would be not unfeasible on my home tech base, but time consuming even there, to make a thing that looked like a bird or bat or something and could be piloted remotely. Getting there from here would be very challenging."

" - that'd solve it. What would the challenges be -"

"I have at least read cursory explanations of all the necessary steps of manufacture but that's very different from having the skills and it requires extremely precision engineering and very specific highly refined materials. And it wouldn't even get you something that would usefully tolerate being shot by an orc who thought it looked tasty."

Nod. "Still might be a better option than hoping hobbits can carry the Ring for that long."

"- why are the hobbits doing it, just because they aren't specifically being watched for -?"

"And they seem to be usefully a little bit resistant to it, one of them had it on his mantle for decades and was able to leave it to his nephew, no human or Elf has ever had it on at all and been able to give it away. Hobbits - don't want very many things."

"I see. - I actually wonder what would happen if an orc had it, if you could find any free ones. Ludicrously unsafe to try, obviously - idle curiosity. Dwarves, has that been tried?"

"There are some here. I haven't told everybody we have the Ring yet, it was unclear until recently that we would in fact have it."

"I take it most people do not have it whisper to them through walls."

" - nope. Not unless they've worn it before - sometimes not even then - very ambitious?"

"I was a child when we went to Valinor and spent the trip interrogating Oromë because the Valar were the most powerful things around and I needed to know how they worked."

"I can put you on the other side of the city for as long as you're here."

"Thank you. It made some unpleasantly specific guesses and I do not care to be in range of it."

"It does that, yes." And he arranges her a very pretty room that looks out on a waterfall and from where the Ring cannot whisper.

"This is lovely, thank you. May I have some writing materials - for the outline of the arguments to Valar, in case -"

"Of course."

"Thank you."

"Of course. Let me know if you need anything else."