The Lord of Gifts

“Men he found the easiest to sway of all the people of the Earth; but long he sought to persuade the Elves to his service, for he knew that the Firstborn had the greater power; and he went far and wide among them and his hue was still that of one both fair and wise. Only to Lindon did he not come, for Gil-Galad and Elrond both doubted him and his fair-seeming, and though they knew not in truth who he was they would not admit him to that land.”