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Old 01-30-2003, 05:12 AM   #28
doug*platypus
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Jurion-those humans who by some fate saw Valinor died.
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I don't think that it is fair to say that the Valar loved elves more.
It might not be fair of the Valar, but they definitely preferred Elves to Men, who were strange and unpredictable, or to dwarves who were weird and ugly. Galariel of the Olden is right in noting that the Eldar were most like the Valar, and therefore held dearest by them.

I think that all but a select few Men would have followed a summons of the Valar. Men seemed in general to have had a mistrust of them. And I don't think that anything less than the Smith God himself could have presuaded the Dwarves to go to Valinor. And even then they may be unwilling to desert their homes or the familiar lands.

Also, I doubt whether most of the Valar would want either Men or Dwarves in Valinor. Not after what happened with Fėanor, and later Ar-Pharazōn. I think that rather than endangering their own homes, the Valar would largely (with the exception of Ulmo and perhaps others) have left the mortals to their fate in Middle-Earth, leaving them in Ilśvatar's hands.
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