Does it work on osanwë or are they going to need to let him talk.

They will need to let him talk.

"Care to repeat that out loud?"

"Are the Valar multiplying? How obnoxious. They didn't mind that you murdered fifty million people for us? If I die everyone in Endorë dies." It's true. Well, he believes it, at least.

"I had this problem where there were not enough Valar around for some reason so I fixed it. How does that work?"

"No comment."

"Does everyone on Endorë also die if you do not die?"

"No. I like my orcs, I prefer they not die." All true.

"Is there something in particular you're hoping to trade for the information on how your deadman switch works?"

"It works very straightforwardly; if you kill me, everyone dies. I cannot see how any information I give you gets me more of what I want than that."

How do the Valar feel about the Imperius.

These seem like the circumstances that would justify it. 

They would like him to explain it to Sauron in advance, please, and offer him another chance to volunteer the information, and agree to supervision, and stop after twenty minutes or once he has enough information, whichever is sooner.

Oh, Cam doesn't expect to be able to do it, but Timothy could.

"So there's also the mind control curse option. I've tried it, it's very soothing when applied, makes you do whatever the caster wants."

"You've invented all kinds of tricks recently. Busy few months?"

"I didn't claim to have invented it."

"I want to be released, and not attacked again. In exchange I'll tell you how to disable the switch."

"Terms of your oath definitely don't let you take any action while alive to release it. Why should I prefer that to the Valar just locking you up?"

"Are they going to keep the peace by forcibly separating the races of Endorë forever?"

"Probably not."

"What a shame. That's uglier than anything I could have orchestrated, sworn as harmless as I am."

Sigh. What do the Valar think of his offer.

They are disinclined to let him go but not very willing to mind-control someone who is conditionally cooperating. Cam is pretty sure locking him up is safe?

They're welcome to look over the oath text, he's pretty sure it's safe. Do they in fact have a not force fields plan for the thing?

They are hoping that if they hold all the trials on Endorë publicly under truth fields and broadcast everything, that'll help the orcs follow what they're doing and why. And they might release some of Melkor's lieutenants if they were cornered into it with oaths or are sufficiently certain not to do it again, hopefully that'll help. Sanity's Thuringwethil was releasable and that helped.

Maybe these orcs should be put in touch with the Sanity orcs or something.