Assistance which we also gave them, lethallan. We didn't spend the entire trip growing a tree. [It was done in the night, not unlike the garden situation.]

Surely you don't deny that symbols are important. What we grew was not just any tree, but a tree that cannot be burned and will never die. [At least that's how the ancient elves had explained it.]

I recognize that what's happened is a problem, that there are some who are angry about it, and I recognize that it's my responsibility to deal with it. And I shall.