Do Elves BURY their dead?

[Maedhros_the_Tall]

Originally Posted by alatar

What I meant was 'were some of these fallen buried by the war and not by their comrades?' Did some blast or quake or other calamity entomb these fallen so that their bodies ended up in the defile but not intentionally?

Yeah, I imagine thats what it alludes to, rather then them having been buried in the dead marshes. Its similar to the beginning of the Bragollach in the Silmarillion, when the Ard-galen becomes the Anfauglith when it says "many charred bones had their roofless grave there, as many of the Noldor perished in that burning". Their graves were where they fell, and I imagine that the Dead Marshes are a similar situation.