Not everyone has the luxury of knowing a parent well. Curufin can well understand that.

"I see. A usurper came to power, and he cared for nothing but power, and he destroyed the town. That is sad. What, the undead? He had a sorcerous power over the dead and used them for the purpose of ruining his foes' city? And many of the townspeople never escaped and so themselves became the undead."

He shakes his head. He himself had been a usurper, but he knows now that it was wrong, and anyway, he'd never have used such a sorcery, even if it had been within his grasp.

"But you escaped, it seems."