"Well, hopefully soon we can send orcs with the news that there's hope."

"Hopefully. What else should I know about oaths?"

They can both volunteer more trivia about oaths! 

"Alrighty. I can work with this. Who's my proof of concept test subject?"

Maitimo waves someone in. She's brown-haired and smiling nervously. "Lhinniel," he says, and then in a language that's not Quenya, this is Corbelan, who can perhaps erase oaths.

"Hi, pleased to meet you."

I haven't actually made any oaths, should I just swear not to eat apples for the rest of the day or something?

"It might take me more than a day to compose and set up the spell, but that's the general idea. You're okay with maybe not being able to make oaths afterwards? I can probably leave it so you can get soul married but I can't guarantee that."

Yes, the King said. I am not likely to marry anyway, it's fine.

"Okay. So not eating apples or whatever else and give me a couple of days."

She says something in a language he doesn't speak which is presumably an oath about apples. The King nods. 

A couple days, a couple cows, and do you need anything else?

"Fine ash. Less-fine ash ground up is okay and it doesn't need to be ash from anything in particular."

That's straightforward. Okay. I think you should change your - disappearance point - to here. We're going to use this to destroy Melkor, so there is going to be one in this world, and five years' less time for us to solve this problem in a millennium seems like a good trade for some more time for your world right now.

"Okay. You have some place I can go to that you don't need for anything other than maybe garbage disposal which doesn't have anybody living on the far side?"

As far as we know there's no one living anywhere on the far side but we don't have a way to be certain. We have places we don't need for anything.

"Uh, why would there be nobody on an entire half a planet?"

I don't think there are even plants on it, I don't think they ever got around to designing it. I'm not sure how gravity works there.

"I'm confused."

"I think before the disaster their planet was spherical, with gravity pointed inwards? Is that right?"

"It still is sort of spherical it just has some space-warping puncture wounds. Gravity still points inwards."

"Ours is flat. Gravity is, well, down. Does some weird things at the edges, we have no idea what it does on the bottom."

"...huh. That shouldn't affect a disappearance point, I think, and is convenient for the nobody living on the other side thing."

"The Valar have said no one lives on the other side, and aren't except Melkor in the habit of lying, but if there were a way to check I would like to, eventually."

"About how thick is the planet? Me or a handful of people using the point would take a long time to get through a sphere of this gravity but if it's only a hundred feet thick or something..."

"Much thicker than that but I couldn't give you numbers." He makes a face. "Melian would know."

The King sighs.