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Old 06-03-2007, 11:30 AM   #4
Raynor
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Originally Posted by Hilde Bracegirdle
What sort of burnt out shell might they become?
I believe the hroa would dissappear altogether
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Originally Posted by Of death and the severance of fea and hroa, Later Quenta Silmarillion, HoME X
As ages passed the dominance of their fear ever increased, 'consuming' their bodies (as has been noted). The end of this process is their 'fading', as Men have called it; for the body becomes at last, as it were, a mere memory held by the fea; and that end has already been achieved in many regions of Middle- earth, so that the Elves are indeed deathless and may not be destroyed or changed.
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Originally Posted by Aelfwine's preamble, LQS, HoME X
Moreover their body and spirit are not separated but coherent. As the weight of the years, with all their changes of desire and thought, gathers upon the spirit of the Eldar, so do the impulses and moods of their bodies change. This the Eldar mean when they speak of their spirits consuming them; and they say that ere Arda ends all the Eldalie on earth will have become as spirits invisible to mortal eyes, unless they will to be seen by some among Men into whose minds they may enter directly.
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