The Doom of Men

[Amarinth]

would recommend that you read The Book of Lost Tales I and II. The framework of the Lost Tales involves a Man, Eriol or Ælfwine, that has found Tol Eressëa and is being told the "stories" of the Elves. Although the Lost Tales are Tolkien's very early work and is not exactly what I would call "canon", they show the possibility of just what you ask.

i didn't know this story too--must be in the 2nd lost tales book.

but again this is so confusing...i thought that save for some members of the fellowship only tuor among men was able to make it to valinor and "be numbered" among its inhabitants. even the elves themselves who, before the ban of the noldor was ended, tried to sail to the blessed realm got lost in the shadowy seas, or tarried in tol eressea and never came to step into the holy lands. well, i guess there are many exceptions to the rules; art imitates nature then...

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