something that still confuses me about tolkiens world is the general situation of low-born elves with like a job.
Like in general in any age, what does their life look like. Do they just serve the same dude for milennia? Do they get days(years?) off?
What if some silvan elf in the third age that has served Thranduil for like the last 2000+ years gets sea-longing? Are they allowed to leave? Do they have to wait until a significant portion of a household gets sea-longing? Are there any elven lords that got to Valinor sooner because their beloved cook or smth got the west-itchings? All the servants chaperoning a broken Celebrían, did they go west? Did they want to? Are they with her in Valinor and really want to go back east (are they allowed to?)
And what happens in the grey havens, does Cirdan just let any numbers of elves on his boats? Do they have to build new boats constantly? Do some elves need to wait in the havens until a minimum number of elves per boat is reached?
Like how does Tolkiens general world of fealty and feudalism handle the elves strong individualism?
Because sure some elves were loners just wandering about, but what about the ones we never get told about like idk the dude who does Elronds laundry?