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•From the French version of the Lost Road, translated in English.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐧
« Men were more frail, more easily killed by weapons or by accident, and less able to heal; prone to illness and ailments; and they grew old and died. What happened to their spirits after death is unknown to the Elves. Some say that they also go to the Halls of Mandos; but that their waiting place there is not that of the Elves; and that only Mandos apart from Iluvatar, and from there Manwë, knows where they go after their period of contemplation in these silent halls by the Western Sea. They are not reborn on earth, and no one has ever returned from hell, except Beren son of Barahir, whose hand had seized a Silmaril; but he never again addressed mortal Men. The fate of Men beyond death perhaps does not rest in the hands of the Valar; and not everything has been revealed in the Music of the Ainur. »