Sharon - I'm with Heren. (Hey, I'm a poet and don't know it!) Gilraen might have assumed the role of a wise woman.
She spent many years in Rivendell, never remarried, and then seemed to withdraw from the world. She seemed to have offered much good advise to her son, and had some foreknowledge of her death. A very sad woman, but she seems to have achieved much wisdom in her life.
Sadly, like so many LoTR "moms", the details are sketchy. But a least Tolkien let her live!
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