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Well, since mortality is Eru's gift to mortals, I'm wondering how well they would be able to handle immortality. I think that the rest beyond the circles of the Earth that was given to mortals may have programmed them to actually crave it, after awhile.
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Even the immortals grew weary of the world.
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That it would just become a "pergatory" or a kind of peaceful waiting place for death, free of the troubles of Middle Earth.
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Purgatory is probably not the word you’re looking for here. Purgatory implies that one is working off wrongs they have done. What (at least the Ringbearers) were doing was being rewarded and receiving a rest from their sufferings. ‘Paradise’ might be a more appropriate term.
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The seasons fall like silver swords, the years rush ever onward; and soon I sail, to leave this world, these lands where I have wander'd. O Elbereth! O Queen who dwells beyond the Western Seas, spare me yet a little time 'ere white ships come for me!
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