I mean, he's not wrong, either... He's an elf, FFS. A lifespan of centuries, if not millennia, has to affect one's reflexive perspective of time & space.

Foolish mortals're all "nuh unh, no blood was spilled here last night" and the elves sigh to facepalm, muttering something about "minds too small to grasp that the world isn't just the continent you happen to be on, any given moment, idiots". Again, and again, and again, and again.

Immortality's a curse, even in phases. 😅