Sam's final journey

[The Sixth Wizard]

Originally Posted by Guinevere

Quite the contrary, Essex! (This was rather Jackson's and Boyen's idea!

Yes BUT before a man goes to heaven/whatever he must first spend some time in Mandos (this is what Beren does anyway), and hobbits being spawn of men might do the same thing. So they would see a far green country under a swift sunrise... at least at first...

What about the Avari? They haven't ever been over the sea, nor are they bound to fade like other elves. What happens to them, as they don't want to go over to Valinor? Do they just spend out the rest of their long lives until they die in tragic accidents? Does that mean that there are theoretically some around today ?

I don't think that there is any exact way of measuring how much ringbearers should age. I think of it like a drug, some are affected right away, some take a while to fall under the influence, some are affected more, but they all get there in the end...