"Though mortal Men have little life beside the span of the Elves, they would rather spend it in battle than fly or submit. The defiance of HAorin Thalion is a great deed; and though Morgoth slay the doer he cannot make the deed not to have been. Even the Lords of the West will honour it; and is it not written into the history of Arda, which neither Morgoth nor ManwA, can unwrite?"