Out of ideas, Kíli drops his arms and hugs his knees to his chest, chewing his lower lip. He doesn't know how to build a boat, but the sea is practically around the corner... "I'll find someone who can do it," he promises, earnest in his determination to help Maglor get home to his mother.

Maglor has to stay his secret, though. Apart from Fíli, he won't tell anyone about him.

"You've seen some, Mister Maglor? Other elves?"

It's better to picture them hiding among the trees than Maglor living all alone in a hollow old tree trunk in the woods.