There is a list of elements of the Event class.

@Data
@AllArgsConstructor
public class Event {
    private Long id;
    private String nameRu;
    private String nameEn;
}

I want to get value of one field from an Event (any of the objects).

Event event1 = new Event(1, null, null);
Event event2 = new Event(2, null, null);
List<Event> events = new ArrayList<>();
events.add(event1);
events.add(event2);
int languageId = 1;

String name = events.stream().map(s -> {
                if (languageId == 1)
                    return s.getNameEn();
                else if (languageId == 2)
                    return s.getNameRu();
                else return s.getNameEn();
            }).findAny().orElse(null);

But if in each element this field has the value null, then stream.map() returns null (but it should return a stream of some number of nulls), and the findAny() call throws a NullPointerException.

Two questions:

1. Why does the map() not return a stream if the map() is not terminal?
2. How can I get the value of a field without exceptions?