[He takes back his son carefully, trying not to wake him, but Legolas looks rather dumbfounded.]

How can you say that so easily? This forest is home for many of our people... I could not ask them to leave it...

[Even those who came with him to Ithilien knew they still had a home in the forest, and many also had close kin still in the wood. Legolas himself could not imagine a world without this kingdom... diminished as it may be, these days. For now, though, that wasn't what he really wanted to know.]

...When do you depart? How long from now?