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*''See [[Mandos#Etymology|Mandos: Etymology]]''
*''See [[Mandos#Etymology|Mandos: Etymology]]''
==Other versions of the Legendarium==
==Other versions of the Legendarium==
[[File:Jonathan Guzi - Halls of Mandos.png|thumb|Jonathan Guzi - ''Halls of Mandos'']]
In the earliest form of the Legendarium (''[[The Book of Lost Tales]]''), [[Christopher Tolkien]] notes that there is a distinction between the wider region of [[Aman]], and the Halls which doesn't appear in ''[[The Silmarillion]]'';<ref name=lt3n>{{LT1|IIIn}}</ref> both share the name with the Vala, who is called Ve, Vefantur Mandos ([[Qenya]]) Bannoth Gwi, Gwi-fanthor ([[Gnomish]]).<ref name=app>{{LT1|Appendix}}</ref>
In the earliest form of the Legendarium (''[[The Book of Lost Tales]]''), [[Christopher Tolkien]] notes that there is a distinction between the wider region of [[Aman]], and the Halls which doesn't appear in ''[[The Silmarillion]]'';<ref name=lt3n>{{LT1|IIIn}}</ref> both share the name with the Vala, who is called Ve, Vefantur Mandos ([[Qenya]]) Bannoth Gwi, Gwi-fanthor ([[Gnomish]]).<ref name=app>{{LT1|Appendix}}</ref>


'''Mandos''' (Gnomish: '''Bannoth''') is the name of a region of vast caverns in northern Aman, full of gloom and echoes, that went down under the [[Shadowy Seas]].<ref name=lt3>{{LT1|III}}</ref> Mandos is also occupied by [[spirits]] older than the world, that were with [[Ilúvatar]].<ref>{{LT1|IV}}</ref><ref name=app/>
'''Mandos''' (Gnomish: '''Bannoth''') is the name of a region of vast caverns in northern Aman, full of gloom and echoes, that went down under the [[Shadowy Seas]].<ref name=lt3>{{LT1|III}}</ref> Mandos is also occupied by [[spirits]]
 
The region of Mandos contain the Halls proper, that are called after the Vala's own name, '''Ve''' (Gnomish: '''Gwi''' or '''Ingwi'''). The sable Hall has floors and columns of jet and is draped with dark vapours. It is lit only with a single vessel containing some gleaming drops from the pale dew of [[Telperion|Silpion]], placed in the centre. The [[Elves]] who die fare for days in Mandos until Vefantur spoke their doom, and they wait in the darkness, dreaming of their past deeds, until reincarnated.<ref name=lt3/> In [[Gnomish]], the Halls are also "improperly" (according to the [[Gnomish Lexicon]]) named ''Bannoth'', after the Vala and the region. The [[Qenya Lexicon]] also refers to ''Mandos'' as "the Halls of Ve and Fui" without commenting whether it's proper usage.<ref name=app/>
 
After the [[Hiding of Valinor]], Mandos and Fui made [[Qalvanda]], the Road of Death, which however leads directly and only to their Halls.<ref>{{LT1|IX}}</ref>
 
In the later ''[[The Etymologies]]'', ''Mando'' or ''Mandos(se)'' is the proper name of the Vala, being a personal noun meaning "Imprisoner".<ref>{{LR|Etymologies}}</ref>
 
Tolkien originally intended the Halls to be in northern Aman, on the edge of the [[Ekkaia|Outer Sea]]. [[Christopher Tolkien]], erroneously seeing a discrepancy, changed this to western Aman, on the edge of the Outer Sea for the published ''Silmarillion''.<ref>{{S|Valaquenta}}</ref> In ''[[The Book of Lost Tales Part One]]'' he referred to this change as a "piece of unwarranted editorial meddling."<ref>{{LT1|IIIn}}</ref>
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The Halls of Mandos
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General Information
Other namesThe Halls of Awaiting
LocationNorthern shores of Aman
RegionsValinor
People and History
InhabitantsNámo
Vairë
The souls of the dead Elves and Men
EventsLúthien's pleading for Beren before Mandos

The Halls of Mandos were the dwellings of Námo, the Doomsman of the Valar; he was more often given the name Mandos from his own halls.

Description

The Halls of Mandos stood on the northern shores of Valinor,[1] looking out across the Encircling Sea. They were said to grow in size as the World aged, and their walls were hung with the tapestries of Námo's spouse Vairë, depicting all the events of unfolding history.

It was to the Halls of Mandos that the spirits of Elves and Men were gathered to await their different fates, and so Mandos was given its name of the Halls of Awaiting.[2][note 1] After a time, the immortal Elves could be re-embodied, and return from the Halls to their kin in Aman. Men had a different fate, a fate which, even among the Lords of Valinor, only Mandos and Manwë truly understood. No one, however, not even Morgoth, could escape the Halls without Mandos' permission.[3]

Etymology

Other versions of the Legendarium

Jonathan Guzi - Halls of Mandos

In the earliest form of the Legendarium (The Book of Lost Tales), Christopher Tolkien notes that there is a distinction between the wider region of Aman, and the Halls which doesn't appear in The Silmarillion;[4] both share the name with the Vala, who is called Ve, Vefantur Mandos (Qenya) Bannoth Gwi, Gwi-fanthor (Gnomish).[5]

Mandos (Gnomish: Bannoth) is the name of a region of vast caverns in northern Aman, full of gloom and echoes, that went down under the Shadowy Seas.[6] Mandos is also occupied by spirits


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