They do also quite like my arms. [Which is true, but his tone is gently teasing. It is not that he doesn't see them or their value but he truly had no designs on anyone but Maedhros. It was for the best, anyway, he is only likely to make a widow of a wife who is left behind when he goes to war.] I cannot listen to it long. It is still too real to me, even all these centuries later.

Bad things do not just happen, bad people and fell beasts design them and I have allowed you to be without my protection for too long and look what has come of it. I am sorry, my love.