Curious is that some Noldor embraced the new culture and some did not. Other Noldor like Turgon and perhaps Finrod as well (hard to tell, I might be wrong) cling to the culture of their home.
That would be quite normal, I'd have thought. Different people have different tolerance levels for unfamiliarity. Finrod I would have considered a major xenophile, since he was friendly with Dwarves (who helped him with Nargothrond) and Men ('Friend of Men') and remained on good terms with all his relatives until the debacle with Celegorm and Curufin.
Caranthir too was obviously capable of dealing with Dwarves on a civil if not friendly basis, and was on good enough terms with the Laiquendi to persuade at least some of them to come and fight at the Nirnaeth Arnoediad. My own view was that the Laiquendi weren't Thingol's subjects, and didn't see why he should determine their relations with the Noldor, and just took the various Feanorians as they found them.
On food: my conception is that the Noldor at home have a tropical cuisine (like Southeast Asian, or classical Mexican cuisine - see Diana Kennedy's books for the kind of thing I am thinking of) with complex, strong flavours, heavy on spices and vegetables, though with game and fish as well. So Sindar food would be horribly bland and dull to them. The difference would be like that between, say, Thai food and Japanese food.
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That would be quite normal, I'd have thought. Different people have different tolerance levels for unfamiliarity. Finrod I would have considered a major xenophile, since he was friendly with Dwarves (who helped him with Nargothrond) and Men ('Friend of Men') and remained on good terms with all his relatives until the debacle with Celegorm and Curufin.
Caranthir too was obviously capable of dealing with Dwarves on a civil if not friendly basis, and was on good enough terms with the Laiquendi to persuade at least some of them to come and fight at the Nirnaeth Arnoediad. My own view was that the Laiquendi weren't Thingol's subjects, and didn't see why he should determine their relations with the Noldor, and just took the various Feanorians as they found them.
On food: my conception is that the Noldor at home have a tropical cuisine (like Southeast Asian, or classical Mexican cuisine - see Diana Kennedy's books for the kind of thing I am thinking of) with complex, strong flavours, heavy on spices and vegetables, though with game and fish as well. So Sindar food would be horribly bland and dull to them. The difference would be like that between, say, Thai food and Japanese food.