Certainly Eru knows best.
But I was also wondering...I have read, can't remember where, something which implied that Iluvatar wasn't altogether pleased with Manwe's decision to call the elves to Valinor.
Was Melian's enchantment of Elwe, and thus the tarrying of the large part of the Teleri, a plan of Iluvatar...
another thing, the Istari were, I believe,divested of some of their Maian memory and knowledge when they took up the human form of the Istari. Could the same have happened to Melian?
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