Do all elves that die, reincarnate?
 

Do all elves that die, reincarnate? If so, how long does it take them to be born again? 100 years? two weeks? Do they remember who they were before?
-LadyElbereth
P.S. Extremely sorry if "reincarnate" isn't the right word to use.

i think most are reincarnated, and sent back to valmar to live.

Elves are sent to the Halls of Mandos in Valinor.

No. Feanor didn't reincarnate.

Neither did his mother.

MOST and in time....and it was just something i THOUGHT i read....im sorry sheesh.

Merely providing examples of the few that didn't... [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

lol thanks.....help is always appreciated.

So why wasn't Feanor reincarnated?
And why didn't Glorfindal live in the Halls of Mandos in Valinor?

Please forgive my ignorance (I'm still working on the Silmarillion, rather slowly) but wouldn't Tinuviel and Arwen be excluded as well, or is their exclusion taken for granted since they both chose mortality? I guess because it seems natural to think of them as Elves even after they decided to lose one of the most important attributes of an Elf...

it is taken for granted

(laconic thread, heh)

Arwen and Luthien gave up their imortality, and Luthien went beyond the circles of the world to whereever men go. Elves can re-incarnate if they want, they merely have to ask the Valar for another body. They can stay in Mandos for as long as they want, or never leave at all, depending on what they want. Glorfindel is an exception, being an Elven Prince, pure of heart and the like he left Mandos and the True West to help Middle Earth. Just because he rocks, and he loved Olórin i believe (well most the elves did, when they saw him at least). Just out of interest has anyone read the Vampire Cronicles by Anne Rice. She describes love between the Vampires in a similar way to the way JRRT describes love between the Elves, a genderless, pure love that comes from seeing the goodness in another's soul.