I agree. East Lorien and what was left for Lothlorien probably still needed someone to look after it. I don't think that Thranduil would have been able to take care of a kingdom that large by himself.
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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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