Crazy thoughts? Older bro hasn't exactly been well, Caranthir.

"I am not even a field surgeon. I wasn't going to chance bringing more harm to Elrond by going to him for this." So what if he'd kidnapped the boy and raised him, that's beside the point!

He flexes damaged fingers, watching how the scars tug at skin. "The Silmaril I held burned me." And of course he'd held onto it long enough to fling it into the sea. So there's that, too.