That was all I wanted to discuss - well, the context if there's more of it you'd desire. 

I find more context generally useful but I don't have any specific questions.

Most people on the Feanorian side lost loved ones in the fighting. The Nolofinweans came in at the end of it and had overwhelming force and mostly did not. It's one of the sources of tension between the hosts. 

I can imagine it would be.

They, ah, find it easier than us to condemn the dead. 

He nods.

Thank you. Good skill. 

We say 'good luck' in both of my home cultures but I think I like your idiom better. Good skill to you too.

And on to the next thing.

Electricity! The engineer who finds Miles has a feeling that the Elves are criminally underusing it if they're just charging Miles' things. What else can they do with it?

They can do so many things. This person should talk to Ténië. Has this person talked to Ténië? She's working on the sound recorder project and she's a brilliant electrical engineer despite the fact that a few weeks ago she didn't know electrical engineering existed as a discipline. Here is a selection of things Miles has discussed with Ténië regarding electricity and its uses. Here are some thoughts Miles has had regarding a timeline of technological development - which things he expects to be easier or harder than others, which things he knows or suspects to outright depend on others, which things he expects to be more or less useful than others.

That is exactly what they were looking for, thanks. He hasn't interrupted anyone on the sound recording project because that's going to be tremendous. 

Reasonable of him! Well, when Ténië is available he should talk to her, and in the meantime here are some more assorted thoughts on the many uses of electricity. Miles can explain the half adder again! Half adders: pretty cool, huh?

It does. It's kind of delightful. Here's an electricity priorities list, does it seem reasonable and what materials will be needed?

Broadly reasonable. He has a few questions and suggested reorderings. Here's a materials list. Enjoy!

The next person wants to talk about programming. In particular, it seems to have a lot in common with the data handling stage of artifact making, which is really long and Elves have developed lots of sophisticated procedures for it. 

Programming is cool. Miles isn't an expert but he knows a few things. Here are the few things that he knows. Ténië is planning to build a computer first thing after the sound recorder project is finished!

They actually want the algorithms as much as the computers; can that be done?

Miles shakes a few things loose from his reader, and unearths a few more from memory, but this really wasn't his specialty and is also not a subject of much interest to the authors of the Survey Handbook. Maybe they should come back to him after he runs out of problems that can be solved in under a day, and he'll spend a week going over the subject with them and dragging relevant tidbits out of the dusty corners of his mind.

Fair enough. These are the sort of things magic items can do; would any of them be particularly useful force multipliers with modern technology?

Ooh... yeah, there's some potential here. The fact that he can think of ten useful interactions off the top of his head indicates that there are probably hundreds more waiting to be discovered when they're farther along the rediscovery timeline. Like, he isn't an expert in grav tech but his basic understanding of the theory involved suggests that you might be able to do some really interesting things by playing with force and temperature in small precise ways in the inner workings of any gravity-manipulating device, but he hasn't reinvented grav tech yet so he doesn't know for sure. If this guess pans out, though, they should be moving the reinvention of grav tech up the priority list because it's going to be ten or twenty times as efficient this way.

Oooh, excellent. Yep, magic artifacts can do local force and temperature games really easily, though no one managed heavier-than-air flight in Valinor...

Nearly every flying machine Miles has ever heard of uses grav tech one way or another. He's heard there are ways to do it without, but they're primitive and obscure and he doesn't know the details. Anyway, the other interactions he can think of are less exciting but maybe these people would like to talk to the electricity people about refining the generation process - Ténië had a few thoughts in that direction, the main problem apparently being that magic item development is slow and she hasn't yet had time to test any of her trickier notions, and then of course she got distracted by the sound recorder project. Anyone want her notes?

Sure. Does Miles want some minor magic items to play with and see if he comes up with any additional interactions?

Yes, definitely.

Rings that make your voice carry, rings that make you lighter on your feet, better reflexes...