Not for the first time since his arrival in Darrow, Maedhros finds himself in the position of understanding exactly what a person is saying but without having the slightest idea what they mean by it.

"I confess myself unfamiliar with the concept," he admits, when turning the words over in his head for a third time fails to explain anything. "But a dice game does admittedly sound more pleasant than my own experience of dungeons. Or what I hear of dragons, for that matter." No dragons had come to Himring during the Dagor Bragollach, but the survivors they had taken in afterwards had spoken of the beasts with terror.