Dylan makes an IPA/tengwar chart.

And he teaches him Quenya!

...Dylan cannot learn Quenya anywhere near as fast as Fëanáro could learn English.

He's a little worried he's teaching it badly. "Or maybe having osanwë helps more than having someone else use it to translate for you."

"I, uh, don't know. It does usually take at least months to learn a language and that's if you're good at it, some people just kind of can't get past very basic rote stuff in non-native languages. I'm not one of those though, I know French."

"English took me like six hours but I was cheating with osanwë. I haven't tried picking up any others yet though I do want to - do you want to teach me French -"

"...six hours is definitely you being a ca- an Elf, humans definitely literally can't do that unless they have powers for it. I can teach you French but I want to know more Quenya first and then I can maybe see how having Quenya as your native language affects how you pick up French? For my thesis."

"Sure that works but it might be confounded by being an Elf. And by being me, I'm smart for an Elf. Why can't humans do that, it's not that there are more than six hours' worth of information you need -"

"We... don't have perfect memories and need lots of examples of grammar to have a good feel for it? And there are definitely more than six hours of details of intonation and register and accent and idiom and stuff."

"Oh, I didn't have it perfect - still don't - just good enough to get to the library - libraries are amazing, I don't understand how you can have murder and have rentboys and have villains when you have libraries -"

"...rentboys?"

"Uh when I got here the Protectorate was arriving to arrest some people and Elves aren't like humans, we find all forms of confinement literally torturous, only I didn't know you were humans so I assumed that you knew that and just didn't mind torturing people to death if they annoyed you, so I ran away and hid under a bridge, and I met this lady who taught me more English and explained how you have to have jobs to not be hungry here and she thought I should do that - I'm not old enough -"

"Just doesn't seem like it belongs on a list with murder and supervillains. I don't understand how libraries are supposed to prevent any of those things..."

"Libraries are nice. I'd think that people who had - knowledge - would be less violent and petty and cruel but instead you're way moreso."

"Some people just suck. Learning stuff doesn't make them not suck."

"Like Melkor, I guess."

"Hm?"

"Oh, we used to have an evil god who tortured people for fun but then the good gods teamed up and defeated and imprisoned him."

"...okay. But you still freaked out about the idea of prison?"

"It's the sort of thing you do when there is no conceivable safe alternative to someone who turned a whole continent into an elaborate torture chamber for hundreds of thousands of innocent people, it's not something you do to people who are crazy and weird or seemed kinda threatening or accidentally broke your arm when they were trying to run away. You imprison people for lots of things. Even if I just got picked up for seeming weird, I would be dead."

"Did the evil god die?"

"Can't. Destroying a Vala's body doesn't kill them."

"Vala means god?"

"Yeah. Maiar are the small ones."

Dylan writes that down. Then he yawns. "I should go home."