The gossip in Valinor is every bit as bad as I expected... poor Elrond & family!
This is also another aspect I didn't consider before: what it must mean to come into a new-to-you culture and society where a large part are your relatives, and others believe to know you so well, and you have do adapt to their ways no matter how much you like them...
That braid is nifty idea! (I don't remember if you introduced it before and I just forgot, or if it's new.) Oh, and how hard it must have been for Elrond and Celebrian to stay away, to not be able to help Anariel in person, and not even through their presence...
Anariel's return with a fresh injury is particularly delightful seen from his POV. Poor, longsuffering him! XD The meeting with the grandparents is going to be most interesting - particularly with these ones, I imagine. ^^

Apparently not even in the Blessed Realm could he count on his children amusing themselves without bloodshed. *ggg*

Perhaps at some point his children might start acting their fully adult ages, but clearly it would not be this day.
Too true. *g*