"No." She agrees. "Although we had our own inventions, but we took a different tack, I think. But my Atarinke has been exploring the worlds for a while, he says. He has had a chance to learn many things from places foreign to us - and he well remembers how hard it would have been, I am sure!"

Also, quite frankly, she loves her husband very much, but absolutely no one on Tirion would ever want to be taught by Mad Genius Feanaro, even putting aside his bloodied past, as he had something of a reputation as an absolutely terrible lecturer who would randomly switch topics as the thought occurred to him, and had no patience for slowing down enough for anyone to keep up with him until he had children of his own.

By contrast, Curufin was a saint.