The Fate of.....

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Huinesoron

-The Eldar are described here as 'dreaming', and it's not clear how well that meshes with the later interpretation of the Halls as a place of healing and repentance. If we want to merge the two, we could imagine that their dreams are the way they go through that process - by reliving events over and over, they can come to terms with them, good or bad. It seems they're 'awake' on their first arrival, when Mandos speaks their doom (and in the case of Luthien, gets persuaded otherwise), but then they 'sleep'.

hS

Elvish dreams are not quite like human ones though are they if you think of Legolas “resting his mind in the strange paths of Elvish dreams, even as he walked open-eyed in the light of this world” or sleeping “eyes unclosed, blending living night and deep dream, as is the way with Elves.”