Divisions.

Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown then in the estrangement that divides all who still oppose him. Yet so little faith and trust do we find now in the world beyond Lothlórien, unless maybe in Rivendell, that we dare not by our own trust endanger our land. We live now in an island amid many perils, and our hands are more often upon the bowstring than upon the harp.

Haldir to the Company, upon their arrival in Lothlórien, The Fellowship of the Ring.