Tragedy and Blessing: Death in the Silmarillion
“Therefore [Iluvatar] willed that the hearts of Men should seek beyond the world and should find no rest therein…[thus] the sons of Men die indeed, and leave the world; wherefore they are called the Guests, or the Strangers. Death is their fate, the gift of Iluvatar, which as Time wears even the Powers shall envy” (Silmarillion, […]
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