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Powers of Melian's descendants

I'd guess that Lúthien marrying Beren put a stop to that. Dior and his children (only Elwing surviving beyond childhood), and Elwing's husband Eärendel, son of Tuor, were basically considered mortals. It was only through Eärendel and Elwing managing to get to Valinor with the help of the Silmaril, to plea for help for the two kindreds against Morgoth, that they, and after that their children Elros and Elrond (and after that Elrond's children again), were given special dispensation to choose to which kindred they wished to belong. A dispensation by Eru given through Manwë, as seems to be the case.

The only character who resembles Lúthien in some ways is Galadriel, who learned a lot from Melian herself in Doriath. Galadriel (enhanced by her Great Ring?) seems to have been able to protect Lothlórien with something resembling the Girdle of Melian. And as Lúthien did with Sauron's tower on Tol Sirion (by the called Tol-in-Gaurhoth), the first Minas Tirith in the First Age after Huan had nearly destroyed Sauron's incarnate form, so Galadriel casts down Dol Guldur after the destruction of the One Ring.
 
I can speak with birds too!

they just don't understand my langwich
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