I'm glad you liked it!  Finwe's got one final apprearance to make, which I hope to post shortly.  (I'm trying to space out the posting of my old stories so I don't completely swamp the "Most Recent" section of the archive.)

Yes, the whole exile business doesn't quite work out as planned.  And it must have been very hard to be foreced to leave your friends and family behind, even for a "short" few years.  To me, the Exile is where the incipient split between the Feanorian and Fingolfian/Finarfian factions of the Noldor becomes permanent.  Before that, they're one people; after that - well, not so much.