Why would there need to be a lesson? This is real life, not a story book. Sometimes relationships just don't work out.

...not usually, among our people.

...I am considering responding to that question in a particular way but I am concerned that it might be significantly insensitive.

...go ahead?

If Elf relationships always work out why aren't your mother and your cousins' mother here?

Elf couples sometimes decide they're happier living separately after a few thousand years. It's a bit different. Fëanor legitimately had a failed marriage but you didn't have to look too far to see why.

Well, if Elf relationships usually work out, maybe when he comes back to life and discovers that Andreth isn't going anywhere he'll want to try again, or something. She seems fairly ambivalent on whether or not this is a good idea or likely to work.

He definitely will. What I'm unsure of is whether she will.

Couldn't guess without knowing her better than reading her books has gotten me.

Are they useful?

Yes, I think so.

Then perhaps the woman herself will be even moreso.

Heaven knows advisors are a useful thing for kings and queens to have.

I highly recommend them.

Trying to go it completely alone: not a mistake I'm inclined to make, thankfully.

I know some people who made it. They left the rest of us quite the reminder why not to.

The obvious?

Not just him in this case. But yes.

Who else?

Our grandfather tried fighting Morgoth alone.

So no one who wasn't already on the list, she sends wryly.

Nope.

Well, that's something.

He may have already been reembodied by the Valar. I don't know how we'd know.

...Well, that could be. Troublesome. I'm going to assume that if he has been 'kidnap him' is a terrible idea and 'if possible, ask nicely if he wants to come' is a good one.