On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, S SHafer wrote: @> 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. I'm pretty sure. Also, the half-elf thing isn't exactly right. All of them get to decide whether they'd rather be mortal or immortal; either they get to reincarnate with the elves forever or else go to whatever mysterious place humans end up when they die. (Arwen being an example of someone who picked the latter.) In this specific case, of course, like somebody else we know, Tolkien doesn't go into great detail about how genetic inheritance interacts with inheritance of the soul...