I don't know. I can't read myself exactly the same way I read other people. But it might have worked. I'm only getting more tempted as my streak of zero mistakes continues.

I volunteer as experimental subject!

Are you sure that's wise? You seem strategically important.

You have not made any mistakes yet. I perhaps shouldn't be first experimental subject but I'd love to have it. And I am of moderate strategic importance; my main advantage is that everyone likes me and I can bite my tongue around racists. 

I should try some orcs first. I don't feel exactly good about it but they are at least the opposite of strategically important.

Yeah, that might be the right way to do it. 

Shall we try talking with Dwarves?

Sure. Where are they?

Not sure. I can ask someone to guide us? 

They acquire a cheerful guide, who is slightly less cheerful when told where they're going but leads them there nonetheless. 

Gosh. Why would any shockingly racist Elves not want to visit the Dwarves. Kiri can't imagine.

The Dwarves are not lit by Menegroth's silvery light. It's dark. 

Kiri can solve this problem. She is now haloed by little droplets of firelight.

And after a little while there are some waist-height bearded people. They say something in a language she doesn't speak even a little bit. 

Please tell them you'll be translating for me.

Maitimo tries, in halting the-same-language. Huh, he says after a second. Apparently they can't hear osanwe or send it because they're categorically immune to mind-affecting magic.

...huh. Do you have enough of what they speak to ask if they want to test that?

He tries, again haltingly, in the local language. They say sure, you're welcome to come close. 

Kiri approaches the nearest Dwarf. And then she beams. I can't read them at all!

Maitimo conveys this. The Dwarves are nonplussed; of course she can't. Mind-affecting magic does not affect Dwarves. They express generalized contempt for Elves who are so easily affected by it. Take that in the spirit it's intended, though, they seem fairly friendly considering. 

No offense taken. (She murmurs briefly to Aleko.) She cups her hands and floats one of her halo flames into her palm. Uh, with whatever background information seems salient can you tell them I'm looking for range expansion, that I can do fire stuff out to whatever the local units are you've seen my range but would need that to be farther to use against the Enemy?

He attempts to convey this.

They think your powers are extremely exciting and wondered if you can keep forges hot indefinitely; I said that we'd asked the same and you had to be close, at which they were disappointed and also surprised Elves had tried forging things. The racism seems to be mutual but the Elves have the position of power here so I'm going to keep my angry-with-the-Thindar first impression. 

That and the 'hunting them for sport' thing. I'm happy to heat some things for Dwarves while I'm here if they'd like.

That actually affects my evaluation of the Thindar less than it did when I first heard it. Osanwe's how we'd check whether various things wandering through the woods at night are people. They made a horrifying mistake and I am horrified but less than I was when I didn't know why they made it. 

I remain just as horrified. Do they want me to heat anything?

I think so. It'd take them several months to get anywhere on expanding your range, though. 

Well, I might be waiting for the Valar's response that long anyway...