Oh, sorry! *blushes*  I hadn't read your previous post either, because it wasn't there yet when I started writing.
(And I agree fully with you - I felt the same about Gandalf's speech to Pippin in the movie! Tolkien said explicitly: "The passage over Sea is not death" in letter 181)
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