It is appreciated. The third person on my list for you wants to talk armor, I think.

"Sounds like fun," he says aloud.

It is! Here's what orcs do, here's what Balrogs do, how safe can they make their people and what is it going to take?

Miles is actually wearing an example of armour that can withstand a Balrog. It shrugs off plasma blasts. Here is everything he knows or can pull from his reader about what it's made of and how it works, although he can't give them an example to dissect because this is his only set of space armour and he is using it to see and hear and move around better than he otherwise would. Command headsets: they're pretty great.

So it looks like building everyone armor that can withstand a Balrog is far beyond even their rapidly-expanding capabiltiies. She moves on, undeterred, to things that might work against orcs. 

Things that might work against orcs are much easier! Miles doesn't have his half-armor with him but he remembers it very well and can dig up some relevant information in his reader. Many of the principles involved are achievable at current technology levels.

That they can get to work on mass producing, then. 

Miles feels very pleased with himself. And, privately, also with his choice of King.

Next?

Communications! Osanwe has a range of 300 miles if people know each other well and palantiri have a range of 'infinite but we didn't know galaxies were a thing so maybe we were wrong about that; sending things across the continent would be a good niche for communications equipment. Translation technology is exciting. What else is out there?

So much else is out there! Miles was actually thinking about this himself; it's going to combine nicely with the sound recorder project as soon as that's off the ground. Here is lots of knowledge about how comms work. So much knowledge.

It is at this point getting really late. 

Then Miles can go sleep, feeling very productive and accomplished and no longer leaking all his thoughts everywhere he goes, although he does allow the productive accomplished feelings into his public sphere!

Everyone else is feeling pretty accomplished too. Maitimo spent most of the day returning stolen items to the Nolofinwean camp. There's grain and horses now. 

Oh good! That reminds him about the books. He goes to the library first thing today.

"Good morning. Can I scan all your books and distribute the text to the readers?"

He can! They're happy to help with that, though he had better handle the books carefully. 

He is extremely careful. It takes a while, there being rather a lot of books, but it goes faster than reading them, let alone copying them by hand.

They are still in delighted awe at the thought of copying books instantaneously. 

It's very cheering. He's very cheered.

Okay, agriculture. The Betan survey is their new best friend. What should grow here, how should they be responsibly growing it, they promised to ship food south down the river and want to know what's suited to that...

All right, let's scan some plants, here's what he learned already when he was helping Irissë with this, isn't the Survey Handbook so great, Miles didn't know a ton about agriculture before he came here but the Survey Handbook is really great.

(He is so pleased with his choice of King.)

And now decay? Elves are stressed by decay. In Valinor everything lasted forever and here it will just rot on you. It's terrible. Their first efforts at houses fell down on their heads. They assume there are ways to treat wood, or materials superior to wood, that'll fix this problem. And food preservation! Who ever thought that food preservation would be a major logistical dilemma. You just put food somewhere, and it should stay the same, just like stone. The Elves are really stressed out by decay. 

Decay would be really stressful if you'd never had to think about it before! Does the Survey Handbook have any commentary on this problem? It does! The Survey Handbook is so great. Also here's some other miscellaneous reading material, and all of Miles's personal knowledge of the subject, and he's very sympathetic and reassuring and full of clever solutions, look at him go.

They are reassured. And happy to start progressing on various suggested solutions. And full of followup questions about how and why this and that works. 

Miles answers the questions to the best of his ability, looking things up where necessary. Miles is so glad he can help.

The next person wants to meet Miles on the far end of the Feanorian camp. Because it could be an inflammatory topic. Were you told what happened at Alqualonde?