I've always assumed that the boys went along in a show of solidarity with dear ol' dad. Likely, they'd spent their whole lives hearing about how the Valar wanted to usurp rule from the Elves, and there it was: proof!
All the same, Elves seem to possess a different idea of family and separate households than we do. You look at the number of parents-children that stay together into adulthood or sibling-sibling. How long to Arwen, Elrohir, and Elladan live with Elrond? Even more than that is sibling-sibling arrangements: Turgon and Aredhel, Finrod and Orodreth, Celegorm and Curufin et al. Then, at the same time, there is an almost disconnect, where Turgon strikes off into a hidden kingdom with Aredhel and says nothing--so far as I can discern--to his father or his brother stumping it out in the north.
An example along the lines of the Feanorions in exile with their father is Curufin and Celebrimbor: It was a big deal that Celebrimbor did not go with his father when he was kicked out of Nargothrond. Celebrimbor was not kicked out and had done nothing wrong, but it was assumed that he would share Curufin's fate. (Even more interesting to me is the idea that Celebrimbor--who some have postulated was a child when his father left for Aman because he did not participate in the Oath-taking--went with his father rather than staying with his mother.) It was also a big deal when Maedhros stood aside during the burning at Losgar, in defiance of Feanor, so there seems to be a great deal of loyalty expected from kinsmen, particularly those "inferior," in the status of children.
I've always attributed the Elven living arrangements to the fact that parents and children become equals after a while, since the parents never die and eventually are pretty much physically and mentally equal to their children. If Feanor was in fact 45 when Maedhros was born (as in Felak!verse), then by the time Maedhros is 8,000 years old, Feanor is...8,045. Not much of a significant difference. They have in a sense become peers, aside from the loyalty that Mae gives Feanor, a son to his father. It's probably easy or convenient then to stay on together as sorts of roommates; it certainly removes the drudgery of having to prepare all of the meals and do all of the housework and all of the laundry for the lifetime of the earth!
I've thought of this too, as you can see...this is just how I've rationalized it to myself over the years.
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Date: 2006-07-18 01:50 am (UTC)All the same, Elves seem to possess a different idea of family and separate households than we do. You look at the number of parents-children that stay together into adulthood or sibling-sibling. How long to Arwen, Elrohir, and Elladan live with Elrond? Even more than that is sibling-sibling arrangements: Turgon and Aredhel, Finrod and Orodreth, Celegorm and Curufin et al. Then, at the same time, there is an almost disconnect, where Turgon strikes off into a hidden kingdom with Aredhel and says nothing--so far as I can discern--to his father or his brother stumping it out in the north.
An example along the lines of the Feanorions in exile with their father is Curufin and Celebrimbor: It was a big deal that Celebrimbor did not go with his father when he was kicked out of Nargothrond. Celebrimbor was not kicked out and had done nothing wrong, but it was assumed that he would share Curufin's fate. (Even more interesting to me is the idea that Celebrimbor--who some have postulated was a child when his father left for Aman because he did not participate in the Oath-taking--went with his father rather than staying with his mother.) It was also a big deal when Maedhros stood aside during the burning at Losgar, in defiance of Feanor, so there seems to be a great deal of loyalty expected from kinsmen, particularly those "inferior," in the status of children.
I've always attributed the Elven living arrangements to the fact that parents and children become equals after a while, since the parents never die and eventually are pretty much physically and mentally equal to their children. If Feanor was in fact 45 when Maedhros was born (as in Felak!verse), then by the time Maedhros is 8,000 years old, Feanor is...8,045. Not much of a significant difference. They have in a sense become peers, aside from the loyalty that Mae gives Feanor, a son to his father. It's probably easy or convenient then to stay on together as sorts of roommates; it certainly removes the drudgery of having to prepare all of the meals and do all of the housework and all of the laundry for the lifetime of the earth!
I've thought of this too, as you can see...this is just how I've rationalized it to myself over the years.