[ Small laugh. ] We need more people with negotiation and arbitration skills. We waste too much time with infighting, though I don't know that everyone thinks of it that way. Maybe we all just think we are holding the line, and don't think of the chaos. But we need people with other skills, too. Anything that results in more food or more of the kinds of supplies we need is good. And what else? -- anybody with an art. The arts can help people stay sane in difficult times.

And you're right, people here don't much enjoy being led. Some of us agree to it in a few circumstances. I'm in the Guard, and that means I have to get along with my superiors for the sake of mutual goals. But we've had people here who could not understand why Hadriel is not interested in a supreme leader. Needless to say, we all told them why not!

[ Curufin is always happy to hear that an abusive parent is dead and gone and not here to plague their grown-up child anymore. ] Did you decide when you were young not to be like him? I admire that.