My point exactly. You can't exactly rule a people who are leaving these shores. You'd be a King or Queen without a people, so, in essence, they wouldn't be a ruler at all. That was why Elrond declined the Kingship of the Noldor. He realized that his people were leaving those shores, and that there was absolutely no point in ruling a nonexistent population, which was, after all, the purpose of the Three.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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