Maglor will just not mention that you can set OTHER charms on food too. Like sleep. Which has been used on him and been used on recalcitrant family members. Cough.

"Aye, I wonder too." He agrees. "The Song of this world is strange to me - which is not illogical, of course, but finding something unfamiliar is both interesting but also somewhat alarming. At the least, it does not seem to be evil. Capricious, maybe."