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I think it is linked to his Catholicism but I don't follow how you can say that enforcing the choice which is no choice is the same as offering the choice to those who have majority immortal blood. Free will is an important concept in Catholicism after all. I think it is a result of us as mortals envying immortality while the Valar who offered the choice are conscious of the burden of immortality.
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“But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.”
Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace
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