I do apologise
Anguirel - failure was meant to have been in quotation marks, I just couldn't think of any other way to explain what I meant.
And
Lalwendë had a very good point about the Elrond and Arwen scene - I hadn't thought about it before but it does portray death very negatively, though that might be more to do with the relationships between the characters than any real view on the matter.
Theoden's death, I thought, did portray death as being glorified and a gift:
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"I go to my fathers, in whose mighty company I shall not now feel ashamed."
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That was a beautiful line and seemed to suggest something to look forward to in death, and that the purpose of life was to strive toward an honourable death.