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  2. Death and immortality in Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    Tolkien's Elves remain unwearied with age. They can recover from wounds which would be fatal to a Man, but can be killed in battle. Spirits of dead Elves go to the Halls of Mandos in Valinor, a sort of Earthly Paradise, for an afterlife. After a period of rest that serves as "cleansing", their spirits are clothed in bodies identical to their ...

  3. Elves in Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    Elves are immortal, and remain unwearied with age. They can recover from wounds which would be fatal to a Man, but can be killed in battle. Spirits of dead Elves go to the Halls of Mandos in Valinor. After a certain period of time and rest that serves as "cleansing", their spirits are clothed in bodies identical to their old ones.

  4. Elves in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Tolkien's Elves are immortal, and remain unwearied with age, but can be killed in battle. Spirits of dead Elves go to the Halls of Mandos in Valinor. After a period of cleansing, their spirits are again clothed in bodies. [T 1] Elves eventually grow weary of Middle-earth and desire to go to Valinor; [5] they often sail from the Grey Havens ...

  5. Valinor - Wikipedia

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    Fates of Elves and Men in Tolkien's legendarium. Elves are immortal but can be killed in battle, in which case they go to the Halls of Mandos in Aman. They may be restored by the Will of the Valar, and then go to live with the Valar in Valinor, like an Earthly Paradise, though just being in the place does not confer immortality.

  6. Decline and fall in Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    J. R. R. Tolkien built a process of decline and fall in Middle-earth into both The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings.. The pattern is expressed in several ways, including the splintering of the light provided by the Creator, Eru Iluvatar, into progressively smaller parts; the fragmentation of languages and peoples, especially the Elves, who are split into many groups; the successive falls ...

  7. 11 Elf on the Shelf Rules Every Parent Should Know - AOL

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    6. Elves Can Only Move at Night. When your Elf returns at night after reporting to Santa, they don’t like being in the spot they previously were. Instead, they like finding entirely new hiding ...

  8. Sundering of the Elves - Wikipedia

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    The names Calaquendi and Moriquendi, Light-Elves and Dark-Elves, correspond to names used in Old Norse, Ljósálfar and Dökkálfar. [ 2 ] Matthew Dickerson , writing in the J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia , notes the "very complicated changes, with shifting meanings assigned to the same names" as Tolkien worked on his conception of the Elves and ...

  9. Tolkien's moral dilemma - Wikipedia

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    The Elf Ecthelion slays the Orc champion Orcobal in Gondolin. 2007 illustration by Tom Loback. J. R. R. Tolkien, a devout Roman Catholic, [T 1] created what he came to feel was a moral dilemma for himself with his supposedly evil Middle-earth peoples like Orcs, when he made them able to speak.