[An unexpected voice, bearing unexpected advice. And yet, it's in line with the world Fingon has seen these past few weeks, isn't it?

Not the easiest advice, though, for any scion of Finwe's line, brought up to have six opinions on any one matter and to feel the world is owed all of them. Fingon is going to have to mull it over carefully.]

I have a hard time imagining the Hadorians as fragile, [he muses absently,] but so many things seem to be different here.

I suppose earnest discussion of the Gift of Men is off the table as well?