"I'm not distraught now, but I was earlier and I suppose that I merely needed to speak to someone about what has troubled me," he says. He's not about to tell her that Morgoth tried to make him harm himself: he doesn't want to worry her, if it really happened at all.

"Who is this man you spoke of?" He doesn't add, 'What, by the Stones, is this about non-sparkly vampires? Would that not imply that there are sparkling ones??'