“And the ship went out into the High Sea on into the West, until at last on a night of rain, Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. Here’s a quote from The Return of the King that kind of hints towards this idea. Is it possible that Frodo had actually died before he boarded the White Ship, and was he sailing off towards the afterlife? Some fans of the Trilogy suggest that Valinor and The Undying Lands are a metaphor for heaven itself. So we know where Frodo went and even why he went there, but Tolkien’s epic story still leaves a few questions unanswered.

Tolkien – The SilmarillionĪs you can see from Tolkein’s description in The Silmarillion, Valinor is essentially paradise, but not the kind that you have to die before you can go there. In that guarded land the Valar gathered great store of light and the fairest things that were saved from the ruin and many others yet fairer they made anew, and Valinor became more beautiful even than Middle-earth in the Spring of Arda and it was blessed, for the Deathless dwelt there, and there naught faded nor withered, neither was there any stain upon flower or leaf in that land, nor any corruption or sickness in anything that lived for the very stones and waters were hallowed.” J.R.R. “Behind the walls of the Pelóri, the Valar established their domain in that region which is called Valinor, and there were their houses, their gardens, and their towers. Both the Valar and the Elves are immortal beings, hence the name, The Undying Lands. Valar is an angelic spiritual being that is often referred to as ‘masters of spirits.’ Born from Eru Iluvatar’s (God’s) own mind, these beings have no physical body instead, they are reflections of the creator’s heart and mind.Įlves also live alongside the Valar in the mystical Undying Lands, but unlike their human, hobbit, and dwarf friends, they never die. The realm contains the magical land of Valinor, the ancestral home of the Valar. The Undying Lands, also known as the Blessed Realm of Aman, are separated from Middle Earth by the great Belegaer Sea.

Why are the elves leaving middle earth