Dragaera

Warriors, peasants, and mortality

Tue Oct 5 11:36:25 PDT 2004

> According to the Letters, everything in Middle Earth
> (including Elves and
> Wizards) grows old over time and dies. I'd pull up a
> cite but I don't
> usually bring my copy to work. This is a pretty
> natural outgrowth of
> Tolkien's Catholicism (which is, of course, the
> underpinning for the
> entire enterprise). Disease I'm less sure about.

Are you sure about that?  From what I remember of _The
Samrillion_ [sp], Elves do not die unless killed.  The
half elf/half humans of the same father as Elrond have
extremely long life but eventually die, but 'purebred'
elves leave middle earth on ships rather than thru
their death.

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