Nod.

"Can we even get the humans back -"

"In principle. The ring says it could do it and it can't do anything a lot of Valar can't. They will probably figure it out before I do."

"Are you all but a Vala now?"

"It seems a bit generous to call me that when all I actually, definitely know how to do without destructive side effects is 'see really far' - although that is cool, check it out -"

"Ooooh!"

"But the ring and I are having all kinds of interesting conversations about how I could eventually learn to do things with it. And about how it's annoyed that it no longer has mind control features but maybe it will grow out of that."

"I doubt it has had many responsible owners."

"It's historically been sort of self-defeating in that respect."

"You don't say. Tyelperinquar is so excited that he is partially responsible."

"- on what level of detail is he operating -"

"Horrible horrible things happen but there are impressive technical achievements in the field of 'magic artifacts' along the way."

"It's a very impressive technical achievement indeed."

"They also hear tell there are languages."

"There are!"

"There is probably some way to tell the story with the right balance of languages and horribleness."

"If only I had picked any new ones up while I was there. I suppose I could recite utterances I heard in the human town and see what they can decipher from that."

"No doubt an unreasonable amount. Are we, uh, remembered vividly enough we shouldn't visit."

"Your alt and Macalaurë's jointly abducted slash adopted a couple of children - uh, half-Elf half-human, one wound up being an Elf and is still alive - and they are remembered fondly - by Elrond in particular but probably not by anyone you'd meet on the way to visit him."

"Abducted children."

"It's complicated. ...The other one was named Elros, before you ask."

"It doesn't sound like the kind of thing that could be especially complicated."

"They didn't have an oath reform, swore something that got wildly out of hand, found themselves obliged to kill a lot of people but permitted to spare the children, and had no other reasonable place to put them."

"Like I said."