![]() ![]() (Somewhere in the Halls of Mandos, Caranthir is grinding his teeth. First (and consistent with the events of The Silmarillion), oaths and the breaking of them is Very Serious Business. And yet Isildur, a mortal man with no particular powers or unique abilities beyond those of an Númenorean, manages to bind hundreds or thousands of Men to linger as ghosts for over three thousand years. This is a firm fact, explicitly stated multiple times in the Legendarium, and absolute enough that even the Valar don’t meddle with it. The Dead Men of Dunharrow are one of the strangest elements of The Lord of the Rings. ![]()
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