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What happened to Frodo after he went to Valinor?

What happened to Frodo after he went to Valinor?

Robert Foster, the author of The Complete Guide to Middle-Earth, explained in his foreword that he didn’t provide the dates and nature of the deaths of the characters who sailed to Valinor, “for they still live.” “Frodo was sent or allowed to pass over Sea to heal him – if that could be done before he died.

What happened to Frodo in the Undying Lands?

Author J.R.R. Tolkien did not specify what happens to Frodo after going to the Undying Lands, leaving it up to the audience to decide if he eventually lived a comfortable life. What can be concluded is that this realm was the best place for the Hobbit to fully recover from his traumatic experiences.

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Why did Frodo leave for Valinor?

Frodo is specifically given leave to travel to Valinor because of the unhealable wound from the Morgul knife. It is a grace of the Vala to permit them to come to the Undying Lands. Gimli, by the intercession of Galadriel, is also given leave to come to Valinor.

Why did Frodo go to the undying lands?

The only way for Frodo to find peace was for him to leave Middle-earth and head to the Undying Lands, in the hopes that this mystical realm could finally heal his injuries forever.

Does Samwise Gamgee go to Valinor?

By special permission of the Valar, the Hobbits Frodo Baggins, Bilbo Baggins, and Samwise Gamgee were also permitted to go to Valinor, as they had once borne the One Ring of Sauron. Later, after the death of Aragorn, Legolas the Elf would sail to Valinor and bring with him Gimli the Dwarf.

Did Legolas go to the undying lands?

After Aragorn’s death, Legolas made a ship in Ithilien and left Middle-earth to go over the sea. His strong friendship with Gimli prompted Legolas to invite him to accompany him to the Undying Lands; making him the first and only Dwarf to do so. He was never seen again in Middle-earth.

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Does Sam ever go to Valinor?

By special permission of the Valar, the Hobbits Frodo Baggins, Bilbo Baggins, and Samwise Gamgee were also permitted to go to Valinor, as they had once borne the One Ring of Sauron.

Why did Gandalf leave at end?

Originally Answered: Why did Frodo, Gandalf, Bilbo and many Elves get on a boat and leave at the end of The Return of The King? In effect, they are dying and going to heaven. Frodo can not fully recover from the pain he experienced on middle earth and prefers to move on. Bilbo is close to the end of natural life.

Does Sam go to Valinor?

Who took Sam to the undying lands?

The Ring-bearers, Bilbo Baggins and Frodo Baggins were among the very few mortal beings to set foot on the shores of the Undying Lands. Later Samwise Gamgee, and then Gimli and Legolas together, ventured for the Undying Lands.

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Why did Frodo have to pass over sea?

Frodo was sent or allowed to pass over Sea to heal him – if that could be done, before he died. He would have eventually to ‘pass away’: no mortal could, or can, abide for ever on earth, or within Time.

Who first thought of sending Frodo into the west?

What is meant is that it was Arwen who first thought of sending Frodo into the West, and put in a plea for him to Gandalf (direct or through Galadriel, or both), and she used her own renunciation of the right to go West as an argument.

Why did Gandalf allow Bilbo and Frodo to sail west?

So basically, Bilbo and Frodo (and perhaps Sam) were allowed to sail West because they directly suffered in fulfilling the special plans of Eru and the Valar, because Gandalf liked them, and because Arwen wanted healing for them. Thanks for contributing an answer to Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange!