Curufin could respect a stubborn man, being one himself!

He nodded. "I'm pretty good at fixing hardware, provided it's the kind of machinery I learned about in my engineering textbooks. Robots are more complicated, and I'm glad you have experience with them. You can give me advice if I get stuck on some problem with one of them. And I guess you'd better set up the workbenches and start defining the robotic problems, as soon as we get there."