#given that *mortals* wanting *immortality* is what got ilúvatar to lock them all into this situation to begin with

[quixoticanarchy]

Also on the matter of Aman being removed from the rest of the world - it’s done in reaction to mortals breaching its shores and threatening Eru’s preferred order of the world, but its removal only really benefits the Valar and Ilúvatar’s wishes. I have to imagine quite a lot of elves are not thrilled at being cut off from the rest of the world and trapped in a little snowglobe somewhere. 

Like, Aman's pocket dimension is presumably still “in” the world somewhere, on a technicality, but nonetheless it must be a strange/uncomfortable state for beings fated to endure as long as Arda to now be confined to their hidden realm and sundered from the rest of the world they love. And there is that detail about even the Amanyar still needing to breathe the air of the lands of their awakening... this whole separation has to have some notable costs for them. It almost seems cruel too, to have men usurp the sun/inherit the earth, while it’s elves - all of them dispossessed in a way now by this sundering - who are permanently tied to the world while excluded from most of it. No wonder they’d grow weary and envy mortal death, not just in Middle-earth but also in later-ages Aman, irrevocably tied to a world that they’ve largely lost access to 

(Valinor as true[r] prison, in the end?)

#anyway im thinking post-númenor stories set in valinor could stand to have more of a slight horror tinge. claustrophobia #especially for those who knew middle-earth at one point #i think a lot of people would start to wish they could leave or at least maintain contact w m-e... repeat of the unrest + exile.. #but they could barely leave then and at least there was somewhere to *go* #also the irony of immortals (elves + valar too) growing weary and envying death would be spectacular #given that *mortals* wanting *immortality* is what got ilúvatar to lock them all into this situation to begin with #arda physics #valinor #tolkien #aman #silmarillion #skravler