Curufin chuckles. "Oh well, I did get answers to those questions. Because you answered them. And now I still have a million questions, but they're mostly a lot harder to answer than my childish questions were!"

He stands up and puts his weight on the injured foot. It hurts, but not much. He'll be able to walk on it. And he smiles at his grumbly older brother.

"Didn't you even have questions like that? I guess if you did, you'd have pestered Tyelko and Kano and Nelyo with them. Or did you just figure it all out yourself?"