A second death

***Sister Golden Hair*** · 07-09-2004, 12:50 PM

If we believe that Glorfindel of Gondolin and Glorfindel of Rivendell are one and the same, then we accept that Glorfindel died in battle with the balrog in the First Age and went to the Halls of Mandos, was released, and thus returned to Middle-earth sometime in the Second Age. As far as we know, he is the only Elf to return to Middle-earth after death. Why did he, and what would have happened had he been killed a second time? Would he return again to Mandos and be re-embodied again and then go to Valinor? IIRC, only one other Elf was subject to a second death, and that was Luthien.

07-09-2004, 12:50 PM	#1
*Sister Golden Hair* Queen of Nargothrond Administrator Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Akron, Ohio - USA Posts: 7,121	A second death If we believe that Glorfindel of Gondolin and Glorfindel of Rivendell are one and the same, then we accept that Glorfindel died in battle with the balrog in the First Age and went to the Halls of Mandos, was released, and thus returned to Middle-earth sometime in the Second Age. As far as we know, he is the only Elf to return to Middle-earth after death. Why did he, and what would have happened had he been killed a second time? Would he return again to Mandos and be re-embodied again and then go to Valinor? IIRC, only one other Elf was subject to a second death, and that was Luthien. __________________ "Whither go you?" she said. "North away." he said: "to the swords, and the siege, and the walls of defence - that yet for a while in Beleriand rivers may run clean, leaves spring, and birds build their nests, ere Night comes." AboutNewJersey.com - New Jersey Travel and Tourism Guide

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