It isn't as if you'll be teaching anyone else after me! Gimli has his own family to teach him to craft and fight and if Dwalin or Balin ever have children may Mahal save us all.

[It really is easy to ignore that elephant, and Kíli wonders if he should be worried about that. Then again, if his mother isn't talking about it then neither will he. It isn't like he's dead here, after all, and Fíli's bound to show up any day now, also not dead.]

It isn't a lack of regard at all.