They were not gods, [ this he says easily, perhaps with a hint of solas' intonation. this he knows. this he might have said before solas, too, for there is only eru and the music, even here. ]

There are too many knots in your histories for my liking, and too many of them the same stories with different words. They will unravel with time, but I dislike not knowing the truth.

[ this, at least, should be his. he should know of the histories, the shifting borders from memory, and not from the books that may have gotten the details wrong. ]