I don't think they'd mind - can you not have someone see for you? -

Yes. Yes I can do that.

Humans don't naturally have osanwe, I lost track of what all it can do.

Irissë, mind if I borrow your eyes?

Nah, go ahead. She tosses her the thread in case that makes it easier.

Walking in third-person view is more disorienting than just looking. Which is fine, worst case it slows them down a bit.

I can hold your hand or carry you or something. 

It probably would be faster to be carried, what with humans already being slower.

I'll take the hand. She moves her hand toward the hand that looks like it's attached to her.

And they find Dwarves. Dwarves have slightly higher body temperature than Elves and a lot of hair.

Hello! We are emissaries from a king of Elves, newly arrived in Beleriand. We're hoping to make friendly contact with the peoples already here.

Their interlocutor translates, and then translates back, more Elves! Exactly what the continent needed.

What, really?

If you're being sarcastic it's getting lost in the medium. Sorry about the not sharing a language, we weren't expecting to find anyone who didn't have osanwe.

Dwarves are immune to all forms of mind-affecting magic.

That sounds like a valuable resistance to have. Even if it means not being able to use the telepathy.

The Enemy meddles with Elves' heads. Can't do that to Dwarves.

Him too.

Glad to hear there are people safe from him. Well, safer.

We're here to oppose him, so it's always good to find more people who call him enemy.

He has no friends among Dwarves.

The rulers of Doriath seemed to think that opposing him was a collective action problem for you, rather than a lack of capability. If that's accurate, our arrival might help resolve it.

Oh? How so?

If the problem was getting enough people to march off and fight, that's easy. We are. Instead of equipping and supplying an army and sending some of your population to the war, you can do just the first part. It's much more symmetrical with respect to Dwarves.

I'm sure our king would prefer direct support to indirect. But if the earlier default was neither then us being here at least means you have more options for how to oppose the Enemy.

What are you offering in exchange for equipment and supplies?

How much is confining the Enemy's troops to Angband worth to you?

You know we'll be working toward that goal anyway. Hardly going to threaten not to. But the more our capabilities increase the more safety you buy.

You're Elves, no offense. I have a hard time thinking you'll be much use.

We collectively are Elves. I'm not.

The orcs were driven back to their fortress in what was it, a week? Then our second army got here.

No offense taken.

It's possible that you're a more capable variant of Elf. If so, one assumes you'd have something to trade.

More capable or not, I'm sure you're right. Or will be. At present we're occupied with trying to settle and fortify, and we mostly only have what we brought with us.

Surely you don't think aiding us would have no effect on the Enemy. Consider it a form of insurance. You'd be getting an unusually high improvement in safety for a given investment, since at the moment there's still a risk that we might get driven out and everything goes back to the previous normal.

Still stuck with a collective action problem, since I'm not personally in a position to equip an Elf army and you're not offering selective protection.