I have eaten. [He protests, quietly.] Babies like to be held. [There might be scores of children within Angband at any given time, but that didn't mean that Sauron knew much about them. Adar was not convinced he did, at any rate.] I used to carry my sister all the time when she was small. It did her no harm. [It is not often Adar mentions either of his siblings, but least of all his little sister who had been the only one of them sensible enough to stay in Aman.]

But as you wish. [As if he could safely refuse.]