"Ah! That is good to hear," he seems to have very little difficulty in accepting her explanation, in fact he looks quite glad for it. "So Middle-Earth does exist in other worlds. Or some, at the very least."

He already misses home more than enough as it is, and though he does have one person here to talk about it, it is always nice to find there is after all someone else who would at least know of it.

"So what sort of stories do you know of my world? You know of Ered Luin, and Erebor? The Shire? Rivendell or Mirkwood?" He is doing no more than listing a few of the locations he has seen so far, eager, and perhaps even a bit too excited given their current situation, to find someone who knows what he talks about.