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Originally Posted by Frodo Baggins
Granted that Maiar are much different than "mortals" (including Elves, Men, Dwarves, Hobbits ect.) but could not the same be said for all? Gleaning things like the souls of elves being rebodied and them fading after living too long, it could it perhaps be argued that they too are only able to be harmed in body. The discussion that orcs have souls is another thread and I will leave them out. However, is it possible all sentient creatures (what Lewis would call Hnau in his space trilogy) of ME are only able to be killed in body but not in soul?
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Think you are on to something, at least all the creatures that are not evil go 'somewhere' when they die, they don't just dissipate. If I'm not mistaken, men whether they die from old age or are killed by something else, go somewhere beyond the realms of Arda, but I don't really know if that means their soulds just dissipate or that they go to some sort of 'heaven' outside the halls of Mandos. Elves can only be killed yet their souls are not lost, they are kept in the halls of Mandos I believe. Regarding hobbits and dwarves I do not know, but hobbits might have descended from Men and therefore share their destiny?
Yet we are straying off topic. I have another question that's a bit closer to what was originally asked. Gandalf is a Maia sent to the ME by the Valar and in Moria he fights a Balrog. Weren't Balrogs also Maiar, but corrupted by Morgoth? and if so, we hear that Gandalf kills the Balrog.... is it possible that they could kill one another? (say, a Maia kill another Maia but an elf could not kill them because they walk on different dimensions or something like that?) I might be mistaken though, feel free to correct me.