Ilúvatar good & evil

[brownjenkins]

good point sgh... i remember from reading lost tales that jrrt originally had a more segmented version of the afterlife... with the evil going to melkor, the good spirits (even of men) brought back in valinor, and the rest ending up in a kind of limbo

later accounts seemed to have dropped this entirely... one would have to assume that all the spirits of elves and men ended up in the same place, irregardless of how they lived their life

eru, who only very rarely interfered in the course of arda, seems to have never been interested in passing any kind of judgement one way or another in the way that the christian god does