[Meela]

I don't know what to think of the Havens or the Undying Lands They appear to be just another land, a place you can actually reach, but I didn't think you could return, which makes it seem to be a metaphorical heaven.

It is almost as though the world is divided by an invisible screen. You can step through i and see and touch the lands on the other side, but you cannot step back through. This mysterious wall prevents it. A weird image, I know, but something that popped into my head and rather defines my thoughts for me.

I would then have to say that elves do not diminish altogether, but merely step through this "wall" and do not return to the mortal world. They exist, but remain separated from the other side.

I suppose, really, the havens and the Undying Lands are pretty much heaven. Only slightly more 'real', if you take my meaning based on my above musings.