[Galadriel was silent as she absorbed what Adelaide told her and remained so for several seconds once she had finished. Perhaps she spoke because she was too weary to reconsider it, or because she was inclined to share such secrets with this woman, but as her thoughts unwound she voiced them.]

How strange it is...

I was baffled when you first called them demons. I know the word, but the creatures were incomparable, they were too mild to be demons...except they are. The demons I know are merely the spirits who walk Arda, those with will beyond mine or Nenya's, fallen to discord and corruption.

That we slew so many of them, those who are so fragile and malleable, is worthy of lament. Had I known, perhaps it would have been unnecessary.