Most likely, it was just a figure of speech. I'm sure that deep down inside, the Dunedain slightly resented the fact that they were guarding a bunch of people who made fun of them all the time, and ostracized them, from foes that would wipe them out in under five seconds flat. Anyone would.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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