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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 8814809" data-attributes="member: 3400">See the part bolded above. I do have a problem with this very idea. Is there any hint, in either the Lord of the Rings or the Silmarillion, that any lord of the elves is commanding their people to leave Middle Earth and head into the West? There are examples of hosts taking up the invitation to go to Valinor, as well as hosts that choose to stay in Middle Earth. When the Noldor who returned to Middle Earth were pardoned, there were hosts who took up that pardon and left, and others who stayed behind.People may follow their leaders, but there never seems to be a lack of choice in the matter. Gil-galad trying to boot his auntie out of Middle Earth because she's not being a team player doesn't work for me.</blockquote>