[Galin]

Concerning beasts: there does seem to be hunting going on in Aman anyway.

And there is a text 'Aman' in Morgoth's Ring that implies to me that however long-lived, beasts in Aman still die. If so, how does this particular statement or idea 'fit' with other, perhaps more general descriptions of life in Aman? I haven't done the work there yet, but 'Aman' looks to be in the late 1950s phase (or thereabouts), and connected to The Athrabeth Finrod Ah Andreth.

If only this text is considered for now (some MR citations gleaned from the net):

'But in Aman such a creature would be a fleeting thing, the most swift-passing of all beasts. For his whole life would last little more than one half-year, and while all other living creatures would seem to him hardly to change, but to remain steadfast in life and joy with hope of endless years undimmed, he would rise and pass...'

That one seems a little confusing, and this next one...

'But since Aman was made for the Valar, that they might have peace and delight therein, all those creatures that were thither transplanted or were trained or bred or brought into being for the purpose of inhabitation in Aman were given a speed of growth such that one year of life natural to their kinds on Earth should in Aman be one Valian Year.'


... might refer to growth only, but...

'For the Eldar this was a source of joy. For in Aman the world appeared to them as it does to Men on Earth, but without the shadow of death soon to come. Whereas on Earth to them all things in comparison with themselves were fleeting, swift to change and die or pass away, in Aman they endured and did not so soon cheat love with their mortality.'

... this one seems to note that they would ultimately die in any case (if beasts are still being considered in 'all things' I guess).