"For this sort of work." He nods. "If we were in my home, I might be able to coax the stone into shapes such as these, although tis my cousin Finrod who is better at that. Nargothrond, they say, his home, the dwarves built for him, but twas his people who had the shaping of it, and the pillars were carven so as to look like great trees of stone. I have not the delicacy for such work."

He smiles. "He is fortunate indeed, to have a friend so great as you."