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Re:New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published by oneoff786 on Friday June 24, 2022 @05:55AM (#31859655)
Original phrasing implied a sort of depressed suicide. In a figurative sense not the in world mechanics
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Re:New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published by thaumasiotes on Friday June 24, 2022 @07:08AM (#31860075)
That seems... accurate? The elves leave Middle-Earth because, when they stay in Middle-Earth, they are prone to spontaneously dying because they just can't bear to deal with being alive. "Losing the will to live" is a literal description of what happens to them, but "depressed suicide" isn't far off.
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