The Council of Elrond is the "follow up meeting" where the client acts baffled that all the stuff you said would bite them in the arse, did.

MORTALS: This ring of power didn't work the way we wanted
ELROND: Worked the way I told you it would. Mordor is that way. Have fun.

Remember, the only elf that volunteers to join the Fellowship on the Second Mordor Project is the one who wasn't around for the first one.