You were young then, and hadn't know yet, how dark the world could get.

[ Nerdanel says quietly and nods ]

I lived in peace, and in Aman's bliss. When the Darkening happened... ai! Only Feanaro knows how close I came to following them. I could not have without loosing myself. But in the madness and fear of those days, in the terror of the dark... We learnt then, for the first time, what true fear was.