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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8813810" data-attributes="member: 23751">The show did not set her up to have cried wolf over Sauron.  She was the only one who thought he was alive, but if she had repeatedly cried wolf, she would not have been left in charge of the armies and would not have been leading that group of elves that rebelled in the first episode.The sea was objectively not swimmable by an elf.  The elves required ships to sail from Middle Earth to Valinor, and ships to sail(after the kinslaying) back to Middle Earth to fight Morgoth.  There was also the Helcaraxe in the far north, which meant that there was a landbridge of some sort from the north pole to Valinor, but thousands or perhaps tens of thousands of elves died when Galadriel and Fingolfin made that crossing with their people.And then multiple times in the Silmarillion we have elves drowning within sight of land, though the water was stormy then.  However, if elves were capable of swimming thousands of miles across the ocean, then staying afloat in a storm would be child's play.The Numenoreans were not in sight of Aman from their coast.  They were forbidden from sailing out of sight to the west because the Valar feared if they did they would eventually see Aman.  To compensate they sailed out of sight to the east and went to Middle Earth.</blockquote>