"Well... After my father's passing, I guess you could say my uncle took a little over the chore of raising me as well..." Little did Atem know back then how jealous he was that it wasn't his cousin who would be Pharaoh, now, he often wondered if he had loved him at all. "He was very strict."

Wouldn't it be ironic that some of that education was also what drove him to his doom? Not that Curufin knows that he would later try to betray him, also, probably not his uncle's fault...

"All I ever wanted was to make my father proud..."