Gimli shakes his head. "Long has it been since there was such foul spirit between the Mountain and the Wood," he says. "A strange, strange world indeed. Then again, I suppose I ought not to be surprised. How is it that you come by such colouring as you do? Among the races of Middle-earth only the men of Far Harad approach such tones, and their hair is nothing at all like your own. In truth, I'd thought you had fallen victim to some sort of poisoning when first I saw you."