*He's had to deal with this for three centuries, this being spoken to as if younger than he is only because he looks it. Gandalf will need to forgive him the added force in his own voice. Enoch doesn't take well to being patronized.*

I am not a child. Do not expect a child's logic from me. It is not only a matter of convenience.

Our presence was planned for, and the phantoms' was not. Or is that not logic? Is that not coherent? I never said I dismissed everything he said as a lie. It is his intentions that I do not trust. Even if he is experimenting on the phantoms to learn more about them, I do not trust him to do good with whatever he learns, and I never said that I did. Words and intent are not the same thing.