[To him that kind of blind obedience is exactly the kind of environment someone like Morgoth or Sauron would thrive in. They'd say all the right things and sound oh so reasonable when the manipulations would begin. It was like leaving a door wide open, welcoming the demons in.]

[Oh yes, that will show him you're not throwing a tantrum.] Does it? Sounds simple enough to me, a very simple transactional set-up. Funds is any sort of currency you can exchange for goods and services. In this place they are called 'bones.' [Clearly someone was in charce of the economics of it all. Otherwise Gadriel and his fellows would have ended up with a fat lot of nothing before long.] You're going to have to learn to try at least. You'll not get far here by going at it alone. [His mental instability completely irrelevant to this topic and he'll thank you very much not to comment on it.]