"It seems to be a pity, that" Maglor shrugs a little. "We do not know what comes after - but we know that there will be one - and so my people fight the Long Defeat and do not yet lose Hope"

Estel says the memory of his cousin, Finrod sitting by the fire beside a mortal wise woman. Is not optimism, or wishful thinking, but endurance - trust.

And to what should we pin our trust? Andreth challenges, still with that spark of fire, for all her age.

That we are not forsaken