Thank you! This is wonderful! I love your descriptions of the Halls of Mandos, and Finarfin's reaction to it - it's very chilling.

Your idea of the process of being restored to life for an Elf is both disturbing and thought-provoking - I've never really considered it in detail before, but it makes sense that it should be a difficult proceedure with after-effects.

The bit at the end when Finarfin says he wouldn't have let Finrod die if he could have changed things seems oddly appropriate for Christmas.

Oh, and sorry about the plotbunny - I didn't mean to set one loose!