What happens to elves after they die?

When elves die, their spirits travel to the Halls, where they rest for a time as disembodied shades. Most of them are then returned to corporeal form and rejoin all the other elves living in Valinor.

Do elves get reincarnated?

Elves who went to the Halls were, after a period of time, typically given the opportunity to be reincarnated into a body identical to the one that died. If the Elf accepted the opportunity, the Valar would then create the new body for the Elf’s spirit; Elven spirits had no power to build such bodies for themselves.

What happens to elves when they die in Middle Earth?

They can recover from wounds which would be fatal to a Man, but can be killed in battle. Spirits of dead Elves go to the Halls of Mandos in Valinor. Eventually, their immortal spirits overwhelm and consume their bodies, rendering them “bodiless”, whether they opt to go to Valinor or not.

Can Elves have babies?

As you can see from above, Elves can have babies, and they reproduce the same way as Men do, but they usually do it when they are young, Elvish libido diminishes over time, and having children is exhausting for Elves.

What happens to Elven Elves when they die?

Elves who die or are killed go to the Halls of Mandos in Valinor. After a certain period of time and rest, their spirits (fëar) are incarnated in bodies (hröar) identical to their old ones. They almost never go back to Middle-earth, however.

How do elves get new bodies?

In “Laws and Customs”, he suggests that, in the vast majority of cases, Elves are reborn through childbirth, and therefore get new bodies: A houseless feä that chose or was permitted to return to life re-entered the incarnate world through child-birth.

Are elves really Immortal?

However, to Tolkien, Elves aren’t really immortal; they’re functionally immortal, but the natural span of their lives is not actually infinite: [T]he Eldar do indeed grow older, even if slowly: the limit of their lives is the life of Arda, which though long beyond the reckoning of Men is not endless, and ages also.

How did the elves get to the land of Aman?

This time many Elves who had been left behind in Middle-earth accepted the summons. The earliest Elves to reach Aman were granted lands on the eastern shore of Aman in the Bay of Eldamar. They built two cities there: Tirion upon Tuna and Alqualonde.