This is an interesting idea and I would like to contribute to it...unfortunately my mind just shut down for the day and the only
almost relevant thing I can think is that my friend can trace her family back to people who came to America on the Mayflower...
Oh, but I lie...one slightly relevant thought has come through...
The first of your differences is that
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# The elves did know some things about Valinor, like it would be good, but the colonists did not know what to expect about America.
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it's true that the colonists didn't really know what to expect but later immigrants/emigrants (whichever is technically right, I never know) did know/think that America would be better and still, like the colonists and elves, abandon everything to come here to start over completely--well, I guess they didn't abandon everything, communication was quicker than it was for the colonists.
Sorry that it's more a rigmarole than an actual-coherent-helpful thought...I'll revisit this idea tomorrow--when I can think things through...