[She is an ancient, old thing and yet it takes a second to connect what he says with what he means. While she was aware humans lay with each other, sometimes out of marriage, it was not the way of the elves.

She wasn’t even sure she could, never mind the implications of being told she can “use” these mortals whose murmuring slowly seems to become louder the more she focuses on them.]

That is not… a thing elves do outside of marriage. [In fact, it was marriage as far as Mithiel was aware. Not that she had tested the waters to see.] In any case, we are not good for mortals in that way. Joinings between us are few. [Beautiful, stubborn Luthien and her mortal Beren for example, both of which Mithiel had seen in the great forest of her birth.]