"A good thing, I guess. I'm not normally a fan of deals with the gods, but sometimes it's necessary. Did you have to pay the god? Usually these gifts of the gods are not free."

He listens gravely to Leo's description of what happens in the case of no sustenance at all. "This going dark sounds like a fairly dire event. Hunger truly is a driving force in your psyche, then." Leo's description of his dark self does sound a bit familiar to Curufin. The Balrogs had a different kind of hunger, but their appearance was fairly similar.