Subject: Yep - the Secondborn.
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Posted on: 2013-04-20 22:10:00 UTC

"Ah, wise lady!" said Finrod. "I am an Elda, and again I was thinking of my own people. But nay, of all the Children of Eru. I was thinking that by the Second Children we might have been delivered from death. For ever as we spoke of death being a division of the united [soul and body], I thought in my heart of a death that is not so: but the ending together of both. For that is what lies before us, so far as our reason could see: the completion of Arda and its end, and therefore also of us [Eldar] children of Arda; the end when all the long lives of the Elves shall be wholly in the past.

"And then suddenly I beheld as as vision Arda Remade; and there the Eldar completed but not ended could abide in the present for ever, and there walk, maybe, with the Children of Men, their deliverers..."

~Finrod Felagund, Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth (HoME X: Morgoth's Ring)

hS

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