He followed Dave's story well enough, but something tells him that he still has a very inaccurate picture of Dave's knighting. Titles are different where he's from, Thorongil reminds himself, and decides to try to understand it later.

"I," Thorongil says aloud, "have been wandering in the Wild for more years than you have been alive. More than twice that, actually, unless I miss my guess and you are older than you look."