if he hates you over that, then he's not worth loving.
look. my mum was human, yeah? not my real mum, but the lady emmald, that took me in. she was sick, and she was lonely, and when i got caught stealing she picked me up and she took me in. and she loved me, because she had no children, and i loved her, because i had no parents.
and i told her i wanted her to make cookies, because that's something mums do, yeah? so she'd give me cookies.
but she wasn't making the cookies. she told me she was, but she was really buying them from the baker down the way. and to keep me from going round there and finding out, she told me that he hated elves. that he hated knife-ears like me, and that i shouldn't go round him. she let me think that. she told lies about him in order to make herself look good, and let me think that i was hated by someone who was perfectly nice.