Her relatively abrupt departure speaks volumes for the central idea of the Elvish withdrawal that Tolkien attempted to express. Their time was over, and the desire, perhaps the need, within them to depart for the West grew day by day. An unbearable longing, it must have made life in the human lands very difficult.
Only a strong combination of love and duty would overcome this, Tolkien implies, and if that bond were to be broken, no cause to stay would remain.
Taking this stance, I am necessarily inviting debate on the other Elvish types who stuck about after the major Elvish Egress.
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