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"As a matter of fact it was all mine. Except that Aragorn insisted on my putting in a green stone. He seemed to think it important. I don't know why. Otherwise he obviously thought the whole thing rather above my head, and he said that if I had cheek to make verses about Earendil in the house of Elrond, it was my affair. I suppose he was right."
FotR, Many Meetings
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This statement suggested to me that Aragorn was content to let Bilbo be. It is after all a poem, not a historical treatise. If Bilbo wishes to describe Earendil's ship as being made of mithril, Aragorn might wonder briefly where Bilbo got that notion but wouldn't spend a lot of time arguing with him about it. I mean are mithril ships any more far fetched than say, elven warrior princesses?
