Outrage?

[Raynor]

Originally Posted by Nogrod

Who knows, which way Tolkien himself intended this? Was it clear to him, from the very beginning, that elves would fill this role in his world, or was it so, that after all the things he had started and got going, this was the only way the things could come out? Or was there something like "poetic fatalism", that kind of saw and arranged this beforehand, and Tolkien just followed, realizing it only at a later stage?

The letter I reffered to predates even the publishing of LotR .

Originally Posted by Lalwende

Middle-earth ... also offers the potential for independence that the Undying Lands cannot offer.

Interestingly enough, that was Melkor's argument ;and as Mandos responds to this:

Originally Posted by Of the Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor

Thou speakest of thraldom. If thraldom it be, thou canst not escape it; for Manwe is King of Arda, and not of Aman only