[ Curufin reaches also, as though to touch Maglor's fingers. It feels, for a moment, as though only a thin glass window separates them, and not the miles that are actually between. ]

We had no choice but to learn by experience. [ With equal softness ] And I know you would have shielded me if you could have. But alas! no one can protect another from experience. No matter how great is the love.