Dragaera

Warriors, peasants, and mortality

Peter H. Granzeau pgranzeau at cox.net
Tue Oct 5 18:05:47 PDT 2004

At 16:06 10/05/2004 +0200, Martin Wohlert wrote:

>>IIRC, that's not quite correct.  Elvish immortality wasn't due
>>specifically to reincarnation.  They could reincarnate and return if they
>>were killed--Glorfindel from THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING is an example of
>>this--but  if they didn't die by violence, they didn't die.  Elves were
>>not subject to natural aging or disease.
>
>Glorfindel in LOTR isn't the same Glorfindel as the one in the 
>Silmarillion. AFAIK there's no reincarnation at all in Middle Earth.

Elves all went to the Uttermost West (or whatever it was called) 
eventually; some in the body, and some in the soul (there was a name for 
where they went if they had been killed, but I have forgotten it), to live 
there forever.

Only Men left the bounds of creation on dying.


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Regards, Pete
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