The smile Legolas usually wore was still, but laced with sadness, with a sort of sympathy for the elves of Thedas.

"Indeed, we are our own people, we are free and—," he paused but briefly, choosing to say the simple truth, "—we meet with awe, we meet with fear, but all of it ever comes with a great respect. None of free folk of Arda would dare act the way of the Men of Thedas do, none but the orcs filth, the goblins, all the servants of Dark Lords long perished."

Even dwarves, in his time, had grown to respect elves by some greater degree than they had for a long while.