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//I will never understand completely why people argue Maedhros would be among the first sons of Feanor to be re-embodied. Sometimes I think people forget how Maedhros argued for the last kinslaying.
Maedhros forced his brother’s hand in order to commit it. He refused to hand himself for judgement and convinced Maglor to do the same. Yes, he tried to avoid the kinslaying of Sirion, but in the end he did lead his troops against the Havens when Elwing refused his offers. 
He might be the diplomat among his brothers, but sure enough he is probably among the least innocent of them.
He kills himself partially to be able to cling to the Silmaril, something the Valar clearly do not appreciate at all.

I do not see him as the repentant elf who would bow to the Valar and ask for forgiveness. Quite the contrary actually: his willingness to compromise, the fact he built his own moral code and follows it as it’s shown by (for example) searching for Dior’s sons (when he had no reason to), all this things rather than make him more likely to bow to the Valar’s rule make him significantly less likely to.
He is prideful, he doesn’t feel like he owes them. He doesn’t see himself as a monster or a hopeless sinner. He, in his head, is somehow right and if he owes something to somebody, those somebodies are not the Valar and their (in his opinion) flawed moral compass.