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Re: Glorfindel
if you forgive me citation, here it is:
HoME v X, p.339, note 3:
"In elvish tradition their re-incarnation was a special permission granted by Eru to Manwe whan Manwe directly consulted Him, at the time of debate concerning Finwe and Miriel... The Valar...were given power to summon, with full authority , all houseless fear of elves to Aman. there thy were given the choice to remain houseless, or (if they wished) to be re-housed in the same form and shape as they had had. Normally they must nonethless remain in Aman"
here we see that re-incarnation depended on the free will of elves themselves, as being the children of Illuvatar, they had this freedom of choice. and free fear were summoned, not brought before Mandos. an answer is here:
"they remained in Aman, simply because they were, when rehoused, again in actual physical bodies, and return to Middle-Earht was... very difficult and perilous."
so , therefore, Glorfindel must have been rehaused in Aman, and then, in a phisycal body, returned to Hither lands out of his own courage and valiance. that's it.
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