Are Elves used to being apart from their families, or is it a tragedy in Tolkienverse?
Just something I've been wondering after reading. Fëanor and his sons left their wife and mother Nerdanel behind in Valinor when they sailed to Beleriand, Fingolfin and his children also left their mother/grandmother Indis and their wife/mother Anaire when they crossed the Helcaraxë. Finarfin and Eärwen stayed in Valinor, but their children Finrod, Angrod, Aegnor and Galadriel all crossed the Helcaraxë with the Fingolfinians as well, were they all happy to "get out of the house"?
I'm not sure about Orodreth but if I'm not wrong, both Finduilas and Gil-galad were born in Beleriand, Gil-galad ruled over the Noldor in Lindon during the Second Age, did he ever sail to Valinor to visit Indis, Finarfin and Eärwen before the Downfall of Númenór and the Straight Road implementation? Did Galadriel, wherever she was in the Second Age, also sail to Valinor to visit her parents and grandmother? Did Elros and Elrond, before Elros' death, also visit their mom Elwing at her Tower?
Celebrian did sail the Straight Road so I'm quite sure she did meet her grandparents Finarfin and Eärwen in Valinor. But Arwen was born, lived and died in Middle Earth, so she would never have seen Finarfin and Eärwen, or her mother ever again since she never went to Valinor. Did Arwen know that she would never see her mom again when she married Aragorn?