Thank you very much!

I wondered whether the mulled wine might come across as a bit stingy, after all that. But our scout is more impressed by the close personal encounter with Fingolfin than by any further material reward!

Thank you very much, Elfscribe!

Yes, the implications of this sentence about the hardihood of those Hadorian scouts were so easy to miss, until reading it in a prompt made me consider what that would have been like for them.

I am glad you liked the final couplet.

The scout is probably a he - not because anything in the poem itself requires it, but because I had a plot bunny about a friendship between the scout and a very young Hador which suggests it.