Finwe: Yes, she did. But it is said on several places in the Silmarillion that the Spirits of Men come to the Halls of Mandos before they pass away from the Circles of the World. Also that they "linger" contemplating there for a short time. So it was not only in the case of Beren and Lúthien that they "stayed" there for a while.
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There was no question of them "aging" in the normal sense, since their physical bodies had long since passed away. In that sense, they were already dead (or perhaps undead is a better term). It was only their spirits that remained. Being creatures of the spirit world, they were invisible when not cloaked in their black robes (although they still gave of an aura of fear when invisible, moreso in fact than when robed).
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I completely agree with this, what I was pondering was Legolas statement:
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The same way the One Ring kept Bilbo and Gollum alive so long - it was just 'magic.'
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How could Sauron delay the aging and keep the Ringlords *alive* for so long? During the time they were really *alive* and not yet wraiths. Same with Gollum, how come he was *alive* after 500 years?