Nod.

And I'm not sure I have any stories that are 'teach children to take their abilities seriously' and not 'persuade some people that they should end their lives because any risk of that happening to them outweighs any joy they might ever experience'.

Your stories might be better suited. Certainly worked on Fëanáro.

I've got a wide variety.

What did Fëanáro try? asks Olórin curiously.

He didn't, he was threatening to research things on his own.

I am glad you deterred him from doing something dangerous.

Me too.

Fëanáro's unusually reckless, though, Rúmil says. I don't think most Eldarin children would harm another person with magic.

Nod.

Fëanáro's unusually adventurous, Olórin says, and it sounds like magic should be very cautiously adventured with.

A huge fraction of it as practiced on my plane is just variants on 'kill things'.

That is not very useful.

It is when things try to kill you a lot.

You're quite right, he says, I'm sorry. I didn't think.

My school lost a student or three every year. And this is with warded paths and everyone carrying a weapon and the grounds being patrolled for monsters. There's a teacher who complains about not being allowed to kill somebody in the first class of the year every year, as an example, anymore.

I think the Outer Lands are similarly dangerous, though the Enemy doesn't teach classes and it's considered less acceptable.

Yeah, I'm not trying to have a contest or anything.

And I am not trying to undercut you, but rather to communicate if you find it encouraging that many of the people here share all of your fears. When Oromë arrived among the Eldar, as I understand it, most of them fled for their lives.

Oh, that would've been a bad idea with a god in my world. Standard procedure is to pretend you're very honored by their presence and not terrified at all lest the god wonder if they have some reason to kill you that you've remembered and they've forgotten, or find running and screaming insulting.

He found it horrifying, not insulting, but was hardly going to hold them back from it, and we tried very hard after that to be less scary. Do you think the hat helps?

It's very aesthetic but I don't know if it makes you appreciably less scary looking relative to sans hat.

I can grow hair from my face! Did you know the Eldar can't do that? We had vague memories that that was a thing and I really expected they would. Does having face hair make me less scary?

...I didn't know the Eldar can't do that. I am not sure if having a beard makes you less scary. Might depend on the kind of beard. Some kinds of beard are cartoon villain coded.