Does Mandos have jurisdiction over men?

[Legolas]

Salocin - the fate of Bilbo, Sam, and Frodo is given, and hobbits were men.

I've written an article on this site about the fates of Bilbo, Sam, and Frodo - http://www.barrowdowns.com/faq_mortalsinv.asp

If you wish to read Tolkien's thoughts on the matter, there are plenty of quotes from him in that article. To summarize: They sailed to Valinor and died peacefully sometime later on.

Tuor did go to Valinor. From Of Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin in The Silmarillion:

In those days Tuor felt old age creep upon him, and ever a longing for the deeps of the Sea grew stronger in his heart. Therefore he built a great ship, and he named it Eärrámë, which is Sea-Wing; and with Idril Celebrindal he set sail into the sunset and the West, and came no more into any tale or song. But in after days it was sung that Tuor alone of mortal Men was numbered among the elder race, and was joined with the Noldor, whom he loved; and his fate is sundered from the fate of Men.

West being the Undying Lands, naturally. Because of his great service to Ulmo, he was permitted to sail to Valinor with his wife, Idril (daughter of Turgon), and was given immortality by Eru.

tangerine - It is Turin who is said to return and destroy Morgoth - not Tuor. All these ideas of the Last Battle were abandoned, I believe.

[ December 16, 2002: Message edited by: Legalos ]