It did. (His searches Fingon's face, knowing that his cousin is hiding his pain - his anguish. Shyly, he slips an arm around him, leaning his cheek against Fingon's shoulder.)

I was warned. Artanis told me to be wary of him and I...felt it too. At first. But he knew how to stroke my ego. (And Celebrimbor had been deaf to all the warning bells.) What he does to me cannot match what he would do if he found those rings. Arda would perish and be reborn in the Dark.