Phantom brings up an interesting point on why they didn't know each other prior to the Council of Elrond.
I've only read the first 4 books of the HOME series and don't know if JRRT has addressed this issue in any of the later books.
As far as the quote goes, perhaps "peace" is a better term than "friendship".
Or then again perhaps it was an oversight on JRRT's part, when writing about the Council of Elrond.
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