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. -- Regards, Pete pgranzeau at cox.net