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Findekáno (Fingon the Valiant) | The Silmarillion (findekano) wrote in compass_network,
@ 2013-04-29 23:16:00

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!open, maryanne walker (oe)

This place is strange. The people here are strange.

And aye, if you think I'm talking about you, I probably am.

Also, mortals whine a lot.

And they seem to die and get sick a lot, too.

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	fuckitybye 2013-04-30 09:35 am UTC (link)
	That's a matter of faith, it's not necessarily a fact. We don't all believe that we go anywhere at all after we die. On the island? Home, hopefully. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	findekano 2013-04-30 06:08 pm UTC (link)
	But you must go somewhere. And it is not faith, not for my people. We know it to be so. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	fuckitybye 2013-04-30 06:13 pm UTC (link)
	Why must we? Well, lucky you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	findekano 2013-04-30 06:26 pm UTC (link)
	Because well, you must. A fëa cannot be destroyed. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	fuckitybye 2013-04-30 06:28 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, yes, of course, what astounding logic. Maybe there's nothing. Maybe we just die, and an afterlife is something that people invent because it makes it easier to deal with the fact that you're just gone. I don't know what that is. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	findekano 2013-04-30 06:33 pm UTC (link)
	I know very little of the fate of Men. I am not a Man, and Eru and the Valar have not revealed to us their secrets. They have strange gifts indeed, but I know not what they are. The fëa is the spiritual half of the whole person. The hröa, or body, is the physical half. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	fuckitybye 2013-04-30 06:38 pm UTC (link)
	What are you? An elf? Well, maybe us mere mortals don't have a spiritual half like that. I don't think even men know much about the fate of men, we just like to think that we do, because the unknown is more frightening than just making up some bright light and pearly gates in the sky and all that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	findekano 2013-04-30 07:44 pm UTC (link)
	I am of the Eldar, yes. We do not call ourselves Elves, that is a name you have give us. We are the Eldar - people of the stars, or the Quendi - those who speak with voices. Ah, so it is fear of the unknown? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	fuckitybye 2013-04-30 07:48 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, right. That's cool, I'll know now. I think so, aye. That's my understanding. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	findekano 2013-04-30 07:50 pm UTC (link)
	Such is strange to me. It is not faith for us, but knowing. I have lived with the Valar, I have spoken and dined with them. They are very real. There is nothing unknown about death, except whether it will happen, and when. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	fuckitybye 2013-04-30 07:53 pm UTC (link)
	Well, we're not so fortunate. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	findekano 2013-04-30 07:56 pm UTC (link)
	I am not sure that immortality is fortunate. The griefs one can see in three thousand years...it is heartbreaking. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	fuckitybye 2013-04-30 07:58 pm UTC (link)
	Well, I suppose there's that, aye. Both have their ups and downs. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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