I know, neither can I! I think that the Paths of the Dead were also meant to prevent all those with the vice of the original "Cursed Ones" from entering. Baldor, son of Brego made the vow that he would enter the Paths out of arrogance and drunkenness. The original folk there, who had been cursed by Isildur, refused to help him through arrogance and desire to remain under the domination of Sauron. Thus, the Paths of the Dead protected against the vice that had created it.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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