Ok. This is waaaay too stupid for the humans...I can see them trying to sneak in and steal her away if they know her location, but risking making the other two races an enemy as well when you are already fighting a hard war against one is just, yeah....no. Doesn't make them seem like the bad guys, it just makes them plain incompetent, and even less of a threat. If he had simply walked in and started negotiating with the dwarf and elf leaders to hand her over immediately it would have felt much more threatening lol.