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Aeglos! Gil-galad is my favourite character anyway.
@Atlas D. Aeradon Narsil was forged by the Dwarves for Thingol's arsenal in Doriath in the First Age actually.
Towards the end of his life, Tolkien returned to the issue of the other two Wizards. In a brief outline he noted that the two Wizards were sent to Middle-earth in the Second Age and were destined to disrupt the work of Sauron in the East:
"Their task was to circumvent Sauron: to bring help to the few tribes of Men that had rebelled from Melkor-worship, to stir up rebellion and after his first fall to search out his hiding (in which they failed) and to cause [dissension and disarray] among the dark East.. They must have had very great influence on the history of the Second Age and Third Age in weakening and disarraying the forces of East who would both in the Second Age and Third Age otherwise have outnumbered the West".
The main entrance to Moria was located on the estern side of the Misty Mountains, it's the same doors through which the Fellowship espaced from Moria in the LotR. Western gates were carved specifically for the Elves of Eregion to access Moria. The door itself was made by Narvi the dwarf, but the inspription upon it was written by Celebrimbor, who was Narvi's best friend.
Baruk Khazâd! Khazâd ai-mênu!
"In summary: I think it must be assumed that 'talking' is not necessarily the sign of the possession of a 'rational soul' or fëa." © HoME X, p. 420
The Hobbits are the branch of Human race, so their afterlife is the same.
The Dwarves have a separate hall in Mandos for their souls, where they can meet Aulë.
Souls of the Ents probably also come to Mandos. Maybe Yavanna takes care of them.
You may like it or not, but the animals in Tolkien's world have no fëar. He pointed that out in some of his letters.
The Easterlings of Beleriand. The folk of Bôr were brave and faithful warriors.
Appendix A, 'Durin's Folk', p. 1080: "Dís was the daughter of Thráin II. She is the only dwarf-woman named in these histories."
A man of the Black Númenórean descent, perhaps.
Each of the Seven Fathers, except Durin the Deathless, the eldest, had also a wife beside them. See Letter #212 and HoME XI.
Durin had no wife, so maybe he married a dwarf-woman from another clan.
@Fandyllic hmm, maybe because Dís is explicitly mentioned as the daughter of King Thráin.
In fact, J.R.R. shed some light on the subject of the future of hobbits in the Fourth (or is it Fifth?) Age:
"The much later dwindling of hobbits must be due to a change in their state and way of life; they became a fugitive and secret people, driven as Men, the Big Folk, became more and more numerous, usurping the more fertile and habitable lands, to refuge in forest or wilderness: a wandering and poor folk, forgetful of their arts and living a precarious life absorbed in the search for food and fearful of being seen; for cruel men would shoot them for sport as if they were animals. In fact they relapsed into the state of 'pygmies'."
These lines always make me feel sad.
The Teleri of Aman never returned to Middle-earth. They supplied the Host of the West with their ships and pilots, but they never stood on Beleriand's soil.
And there's indeed some later version in HoME XII, where the Blue Wizards actually visited Middle-earth during the Second Age instead of the Third.
It depends on which version of the text you prefer. Christopher removed the passage, where it is said that 'Eönwë summoned unto him all Elves and Men from Hithlum unto the East'.
Myths Transformed:
"The war was successful, and ruin was limited to the small (if beautiful) region of Beleriand. Morgoth was thus actually made captive in physical form and in that form taken as a mere criminal to Aman and delivered to Námo Mandos as judge - and executioner. He was judged, and eventually taken out of the Blessed Realm and executed: that is killed like one of the Incarnates. It was then made plain (though it must have been understood beforehand by Manwë and Námo) that, though he had 'disseminated' his power (his evil and possessive and rebellious will) far and wide into the matter of Arda, he had lost direct control of this, and all that 'he', as a surviving remnant of integral being, retained as 'himself and under control was the terribly shrunken and reduced spirit that inhabited his selfimposed (but now beloved) body. When that body was destroyed he was weak and utterly 'houseless', and for that time at a loss and 'unanchored' as it were. We read that he was then thrust out into the Void. That should mean that he was put outside Time and Space, outside Eä altogether; but if that were so this would imply a direct intervention of Eru (with or without supplication of the Valar)."
In The Shibboleth of Fëanor, the following words are said:
"Galadriel was the greatest of the Ñoldor, except Fëanor maybe, though she was wiser than he, and her wisdom increased with the long years."
Tolkien explicitly called Fëanor the most powerful Elf.
Only Fingolfin and Galadriel were match to him.
"The First was the shortest."
In fact, Tolkien mentioned that it was the longest age.