You don't have to sound so sceptical about it... [He is very grateful that there were no dragons hanging around Valinor while Tyelko was growing up. The bear incident wasn't that bad, the velociraptor however...]

It was only natural that they'd try to protect themselves. But I think it might not have been a conscious action on their part.

[Not hard to love at all. At least once he had calmed himself enough to see more than just his imediate misery.]