"The notes on relevant facts about Melkor, not the notes on your progress. I'm happy to swear not to get deoathed and not to use the mages for anything you wouldn't approve of."

"The notes on the facts about Melkor are reminders of components of an aesthetic because that's what I will actually use in spell composition."

"Then write them in some other format, I doubt that's how Thuringwethil provided them."

"They weren't especially writeable."

"It is plausible to me that the Enemy told you this specifically to get you to leave approximately the one place outside Valinor where he can't capture or kill you. Given that, I want a backup plan. Do you think there are possible backup plans, or are you the only person who can possibly accomplish this in however much time we have before the Enemy escalates?"

"I would like recognition that answering that question constitutes a concession."

Nod. 

"Thuringwethil osanwëd me a bunch of stuff; I could osanwë it to someone else for artistic reinterpretation - they could bounce it to Ranary, or another mage."

"Would you be willing to do that?"

"It would not thrill me and it would make me even less willing to get you more mages, especially any who are creepily sworn to obedience."

"I was thinking Findekáno's sister, who cannot stand me and has definitely never sworn me anything. And Findekáno if we can agree on a way for you to de-oath him without you doing other things."

"You know what de-oathing paint looks like. If you're willing to let me de-oath him why didn't you?"

"I - don't endorse anything I did that day, and I can fix some of it."

"You know what the paint looks like. You can stop me if I try to do something else."

"All right."

"Can I do that now?"

"Yes."

"Nobody gave back my kit after I left it the other day."

"I'll have them bring it."

Sigh. "Where?"

"He's upstairs."

Cor heads upstairs. "Are you going to do horrible things to him once he's de-oathed?"

"I was going to stop anyway."

"The war was going to be over. We were going to have resurrection. There were other worlds out there, other magic systems - it was insane -"