"Pathetic, that they only saw you as a job. You deserved better than that."

Curufin, of course, knows nothinng about Roberta and Doc, or the complexity of their personalities and attitudes. He only feels that Murphy may have gotten the short end of the stick.

"You've done some world-building? So have I. And I've seen others trying it and failing at it. I agree, whoever is doing the world-building here is. . . not exactly brilliant at the task."