Curufin chuckles to see that smile. They have this in common: they don't hate the Valar, but they don't love them enough to believe them implicitly, and they don't want to spend all of eternity under their rule.
He is sad to have missed him father's company and that of his other relatives, but he is not sad to have missed the Halls. But how wonderful it is to see his father again, and to know they'll be together for an indefinite period of time. The VoidTrecker Express may be be traveling through the Void, but how funny, if it's the same Void as in Arda! A train traveling through it and picking up passengers is hilarious! Even if it were true that they were thrown into the Void for not fulfilling the Oath, then this is even funnier!
And he sobers a little in order to answer the question. "When I was dying in the lowest level of Menegroth, I had to make a choice. Caranthir and I had succeeded in killing Dior after he mortally wounded Celegorm. The two of us were wounded, too, and even we couldn't have survived our injuries. I was the last one left conscious, and I had very little strength left. I could have searched Dior's body for the Silmaril, which at that point I was still pretty sure he had. Or I could have crawled to Caranthir and Celegorm and said my last goodbyes, and held their hands. In other words, I could choose hate, or I could choose love. I knew I didn't have enough time or strength left to do both. I crawled to my brothers and lay down beside them. I chose love."
He gazes into his father's beloved face.
"The Oath was nagging at me, but I told it to go to hell, I was busy. And I felt the strangest thing -- I felt myself and it part ways. I can't be sure that it was entirely due to my foreswearing the Oath; because maybe my approaching death had something to do with it. But I feel as though it was me, my intentions, my will. And most of all, my love."
Thank you! XD
He is sad to have missed him father's company and that of his other relatives, but he is not sad to have missed the Halls. But how wonderful it is to see his father again, and to know they'll be together for an indefinite period of time. The VoidTrecker Express may be be traveling through the Void, but how funny, if it's the same Void as in Arda! A train traveling through it and picking up passengers is hilarious! Even if it were true that they were thrown into the Void for not fulfilling the Oath, then this is even funnier!
And he sobers a little in order to answer the question. "When I was dying in the lowest level of Menegroth, I had to make a choice. Caranthir and I had succeeded in killing Dior after he mortally wounded Celegorm. The two of us were wounded, too, and even we couldn't have survived our injuries. I was the last one left conscious, and I had very little strength left. I could have searched Dior's body for the Silmaril, which at that point I was still pretty sure he had. Or I could have crawled to Caranthir and Celegorm and said my last goodbyes, and held their hands. In other words, I could choose hate, or I could choose love. I knew I didn't have enough time or strength left to do both. I crawled to my brothers and lay down beside them. I chose love."
He gazes into his father's beloved face.
"The Oath was nagging at me, but I told it to go to hell, I was busy. And I felt the strangest thing -- I felt myself and it part ways. I can't be sure that it was entirely due to my foreswearing the Oath; because maybe my approaching death had something to do with it. But I feel as though it was me, my intentions, my will. And most of all, my love."