[ Curufin smiles back. ]

But I thought she did pretty well with the situation, considering.

Besides, I made sure that if anybody was going to cast any aspersions, they cast them at me, not her.

[ This is true. If he even heard a whisper of disapproval being directed at Sulriel for her choice of a mate, Curufin tracked down the whisperer and tossed that person over the garden wall. ]