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Tolkien skrev:This doom she [Lúthien] chose, forsaking the Blessed Realm, and putting aside all claim to kinship with those that dwell there; that thus whatever grief might lie in wait, the fates of Beren and Lúthien might be joined, and their paths lead together beyond the confines of the world.
Tolkien skrev:But in after days it was sung that Tuor alone of mortal Men was numbered among the elder race, and was joined with the Noldor, whom he loved; and his fate is sundered from the fate of Men.



Jurgen Wullenwever skrev:Har någon förstått hur det går till när en av Tolkiens älvor avsäger sig sin odödlighet? Jag skriver älvor, inte alver enär de fall jag minns alltid är kvinnor, Lúthien av Doriath, Idril av Gondolin, och halvälvan Arwen av Imladris.

Tolkien skrev:The passing 'oversea' to Eressëa [...] was permitted to, indeed urged upon, all Elves remaining in Middle-earth after the downfall of Morgoth in Angband. [...] But at the end of the Second Age came the great Catastrophe [...]: the annihilation of Númenor, and the 'removal' of Aman from the physical world. The passing 'oversea', therefore, of Mortals after the Catastrophe -- which is recorded in The Lord of the Rings -- is not quite the same thing. It was in any case a special grace. An opportunity for dying according to the original plan for the unfallen: they went to a state in which they could acquire greater knowledge and peace of mind, and being healed of all hurts both of mind and body, could at last surrender themselves: die of free will, and even of desire, in estel. A thing which Aragorn achieved without any such aid.

Pengolodh skrev:
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Tolkien skriver någonstans att Frodo inte får odödlighet, bara en biljett till Aman, via Arwen. Väl där levde han paradisiskt tills han själv valde att "ta emot Ilúvatars gåva" (precis som Elessar gjort).
Spaningsledaren skrev:
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Huvudfiguren Frodo gjorde i sin egenskap av f.d. ringbärare det motsatta valet.



Jurgen Wullenwever skrev:Det här med straff, som nämns ovan, kommer det sig av något som jag har skrivit?


Jurgen Wullenwever skrev:För en odödlig däremot ... dess köttsliga form kan dräpas, men anden kan återkomma i ny skepnad, om den vill. Om den nu tidigare valt att bli dödlig, så måste anden taga en annan väg från början, och gå dit människorna går, men hur vet den det?
Tolkien skrev:But since some have held that the rate of longevity is a biological characteristic, within limits of variation, you could not have Elves in a sense 'immortal' – not eternal, but not dying by 'old age' — and Men mortal, more or less as they now seem to be in the Primary World – and yet sufficiently akin. I might answer that this 'biology' is only a theory, that modern 'gerontology', or whatever they call it, finds 'ageing' rather more mysterious, and less clearly inevitable in bodies of human structure. But I should actually answer: I do not care. This is a biological dictum in my imaginary world. It is only (as yet) an incompletely imagined world, a rudimentary 'secondary'; but if it pleased the Creator to give it (in a corrected form) Reality on any plane, then you would just have to enter it and begin studying its different biology, that is all.
Tolkien skrev:[…] for the point of view of this mythology is that 'mortality' or a short span, and 'immortality' or an indefinite span was part of what we might call the biological and spiritual nature of the Children of God, Men and Elves (the firstborn) respectively, and could not be altered by anyone (even a Power or god), and would not be altered by the One, except perhaps by one of those strange exceptions to all rules and ordinances which seem to crop up in the history of the Universe, and show the Finger of God, as the one wholly free Will and Agent. *
* The story of Beren and Lúthien is the one great exception, as it is the way by which 'Elvishness' becomes wound in as a thread in human history.

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