They are both dangerous things. Pride is a thing my people struggle with, so we must keep ourselves mindful to our propensity for it lest we fall to it's temptation. [Like his father. Who had completely let it go to his head at the end of it.]

[Well... he's not wrong.] It is. Though I hope my foster sons will have peace enough in their lives that they need not devote themselves wholly to such skills.

I don't doubt parts of my stories will live on. But it is a new age that is dawning. [A better one, hopefully.] I'd not like them to dwell overlong on me when they have lives to live and their own stories to write.

[Simple, yes. But that's part of the problem. It's too simple. Life is too complicated for such simple solutions most of the time.] In my world death was not meant to be such a frightening thing. It was Eru's gift to Men, but Morgoth found the humans first and so he twisted it in their minds and made it a violent and frightful thing. Your kind was meant to go to him afterwards, to dwell with him in the Timeless Halls until the Second Music when all things would be turned to right.