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Re:The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part I: Bargaining for Goods a... by inglor_cz on Saturday January 29, 2022 @05:50AM (#30125379)
Elves could be released from the Halls of Mandos and reincarnated. It wasn't totally common, but it happened in the Tolkien's world more than once.

There is, for example, a remark in The Silmarillion that "Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar". Finrod was killed in Sauron's captivity in Middle Earth.

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Re:The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part I: Bargaining for Goods a... by db48x on Saturday January 29, 2022 @06:01AM (#30125434)
It could be fairly common, but they would be reincarnated in Aman where Mandos is and thus would have to have sailed back to Middle Earth in order to show up in the stories. There’s just not a lot of traffic going in that direction by the the Third Age.
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Re:The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part I: Bargaining for Goods a... by inglor_cz on Saturday January 29, 2022 @06:18AM (#30125502)
Yes, we do not really know what was the norm in Aman.

The Kinslaying was considered a great crime, though, which indicates that the murdered Teleri could not be just simply brought back to life en masse.

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Re:The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part I: Bargaining for Goods a... by db48x on Sunday January 30, 2022 @07:22AM (#30136529)
True. I’m not sure the Valar ever did anything en masse.
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