"I feel more...conflicted. I know of Isildur and his failing. I could not live with myself if I repeated his actions." which was why he existed on the fringe, entering battles when need was great, "I have aided the Men of Gondor and Rohan. I have slain so many Orcs I have lost count. Not once have I given them my name."

Thus Maedhros may have heard a tale or two of a Ranger leading soldiers into battle - a nameless Man who was skilled at what he did. Then he would vanish in the night or by the light of the dawn.

"Ada loves me, I do not doubt." there, he slipped into Elrond's true title for him; a title that upset his mother from time to time, "I love him, but I fear my future is beyond these walls. I am frightened to leave."

"You have your own ills." Aragorn took a breath, "You are very kind, my lord."