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hildenyarvaEru

11-12-2002 05:30 PM

hobbit afterlife?

in my reading so far, I have discovered that Men and Elves go to the Halls of Mandos when they die. what I have not discovered yet is if hobbits go there, too. does anyone know?

Kuruharan

11-12-2002 06:23 PM

Well, yes we know what happens to them, but no we don't know what happens to them.

We know that Hobbits are little humans with furry feet so they go to Mandos when they die, just like all other men.

What happens when they leave Mandos is anybody's guess.

burrahobbit

11-12-2002 06:41 PM

Quite. They go to Mandos, then they leave Mandos. They leave Arda, but then what happens?

Nobody really knows, but some people like to think that they go to a sort of Heaven to be with Eru. I don't know if I exactly accept that idea, but it isn't so bad.

What we know is that they go to Mandos, and then they Leave. After that I suppose it's up to you to suppose about what happens. But while its fun to suppose, keep in mind that what you come up with won't win you any arguments.

[ November 12, 2002: Message edited by: burrahobbit ]

thorondil

11-12-2002 07:44 PM

>>We know that Hobbits are little humans with furry feet so they go to Mandos when they die, just like all other men.

>>What happens when they leave Mandos is anybody's guess.

Thought I might add a quote from Letter 131

Quote:

The Doom (or the Gift) of Men is mortality, freedom from the circles of the world. Since the point of view of the whole cycle is the Elvish, mortality is not explained mythically: it is a mystery of God of which no more is known than that 'what God has purposed for Men is hidden': a grief and an envy to the immortal Elves.

Gwaihir the Windlord

11-13-2002 12:11 AM

Men leave Ea, that's all we know. I believe in a kind of heaven-like existence, but then I don't believe in the stereotypical heaven... I don't mean a big white room full of people or anything, but I am sure that dead men are close to Eru, and as such in the fabric of what is beyond Ea. They, in my opinion, will enjoy an existence slightly like that of the Ainur at first, but different in many ways 'cause they aren't Ainur.

Atariel

11-19-2002 05:35 AM

I think that hobbits go to a little farm in the sky, or somewhere near Tol Eressea, where they eta and drink and have parties all day, and the rest of the time they write books and plough fields with little winged donkeys.

Ardamir the Blessed

12-26-2004 02:33 PM

LR, 'The Houses of Healing':

Quote:

Slowly the lights of the torches in front of him [Meriadoc] flickered and went out, and he was walking in a darkness; and he thought: ‘This is a tunnel leading to a tomb; there we shall stay forever.’

It seems that the Hobbits (or at least Meriadoc) did not believe in an afterlife (other than staying forever in a tomb).

Eomer of the Rohirrim

12-26-2004 04:27 PM

That was just his mood that day. He had been reading Schopenhauer, you see. ;)

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