Elthir
Cat in a Coat
- Joined
- Nov 28, 2004
- Messages
- 3,939
Concerning the possibility of meeting your namesake in the Halls of Waiting, it seems that, in any case, the Elvish fea (fea roughly translates as "spirit", plural fear) is solitary by nature, and turns only towards those with whom, maybe, it formed strong bonds of love in life.
At least according to Tolkien when he wrote Of The Laws And Customs Among The Eldar Pertaining To Marriage And Other Matters Related Thereto: Together With The Statute Of Finwe And Miriel And The Debate Of The Valar At Its Making [love that title].
"The Re-born report that in Mandos there are many elves, and among them many of the Alamanyar, but that there is in the Halls of Waiting little mingling or communing of kind with kind, or indeed of any one fea with another. For the houseless fea is solitary by nature, and turns only towards those with whom, maybe, it formed strong bonds of love in life."
Also noting . . .
" . . . a time of Waiting, in which, howsoever they had died, they were corrected, instructed, strengthened, or comforted, according to their needs to deserts. If they would consent to this. But the fea in its nakedness is obdurate, and remains long in the bondage of its memory and old purposes (especially if these were evil.)"
JRRT, Morgoth's Ring
At least according to Tolkien when he wrote Of The Laws And Customs Among The Eldar Pertaining To Marriage And Other Matters Related Thereto: Together With The Statute Of Finwe And Miriel And The Debate Of The Valar At Its Making [love that title].
"The Re-born report that in Mandos there are many elves, and among them many of the Alamanyar, but that there is in the Halls of Waiting little mingling or communing of kind with kind, or indeed of any one fea with another. For the houseless fea is solitary by nature, and turns only towards those with whom, maybe, it formed strong bonds of love in life."
Also noting . . .
" . . . a time of Waiting, in which, howsoever they had died, they were corrected, instructed, strengthened, or comforted, according to their needs to deserts. If they would consent to this. But the fea in its nakedness is obdurate, and remains long in the bondage of its memory and old purposes (especially if these were evil.)"
JRRT, Morgoth's Ring