This kind of honesty was actually quite pleasant to hear, Legolas arched his brows and smiled. He wasn’t likely to simply take just any stranger’s word about anything, but it was always good to hear them out.

It was rare, too, that anyone was ever truly impartial.

“There are things to have strong opinions about, certainly,” he would have to be blind to not have already seen some of them. “Yet my first question will be easy, for I would like to learn your name. I am Legolas, son of Thranduil.”