Tolkien: What was life like for the lesser elves?

[Nonny J. Nonnington, Esq.]

And by that I don't mean the Sindar or dark elves or whatever. I mean the non-king, non-prince, non-great craftsmen in each group of elves. Someone had to dust the carvings and grow elf food and shovel elf crap and stuff like that. That was true of dwarves and men of course, as it is for men now, but at least those poor bastards could look forward to raising a family, a few decades of laughs and finally the sweet, sweet release of death.

If star elves like Galadriel eventually tired of life in Middle Earth things must have really sucked for Galadriel's handmaiden and Lothlorien's assistant plumber, yes? Anytime there came a battle with Sauron I'd be begging to be in the first row of the attack.

Does Tolkien talk about this at all or does he exclusively focus on the great ones?