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What will happen on judgement day...(Dagor Dargonath)

I like to think that Finrod was onto something special when he had a vision while discussing these matters with a mortal woman. Have you read Athrabeth Finrod Ah Andreth?

In short he has a vision of Arda Remade, and in this Arda Men are at home and Elves are quests. The elves had the opinion that Men were guests in the world. Finrod ended by telling the woman to wait for him and his brother in this place. I reckon that Feanor giving his simarilli to Yavanna at the end and their healing light pouring out over Arda will also be a major factor in the Arda Remade.

If you have read the Athrabeth text, what is your opinion of Finrod's vision?
 
In short he has a vision of Arda Remade, and in this Arda Men are at home and Elves are quests. The elves had the opinion that Men were guests in the world. Finrod ended by telling the woman to wait for him and his brother in this place.
According to Myths transformed, Notes on the Silmarillion, iii, there is a possibility that Arda Healed occurs (also) outside time/the circles of the world:
Similarly the Elves faded, having introduced 'art and science'. Men will also 'fade', if it proves to be the plan that things shall still go on, when they have completed their function. But even the Elves had the notion that this would not be so: that the end of Men would somehow be bound up with the end of history, or as they called it 'Arda Marred' (Arda Sahta), and the achievement of 'Arda Healed' (Arda Envinyanta). (They do not seem to have been clear or precise - how should they be! - whether Arda Envinyanta was a permanent state of achievement, which could therefore only be enjoyed 'outside Time', as it were: surveying the Tale as an englobed whole; or a state of unmarred bliss within Time and in a 'place' that was in some sense a lineal and historical descent of our world or 'Arda Marred'. They seem often to have meant both. 'Arda Unmarred' did not actually exist, but remained in thought - Arda without Melkor, or rather without the effects of his becoming evil; but is the source from which all ideas of order and perfection are derived. 'Arda Healed' is thus both the completion of the 'Tale of Arda' which has taken up all the deeds of Melkor, but must according to the promise of Iluvatar be seen to be good; and also a state of redress and bliss beyond the 'circles of the world'.)
 

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