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In the The Nature of Middle-earth Tolkien several times refers in passing to “losses” among the Eldar before the finding. Did he envision no elvish deaths but disappearances only? For if any died, what would happen to their fëar? Assuming Mandos had built the Halls of Waiting in anticipation of...

I had to watch the June 5 Sauron Defeated session asynchronously, and am responding to the discussion about Celeborn’s words to Aragorn in the draft. They read to me to mean the same as what he says in the printed text, but framed entirely negatively rather than with the later, partial...