Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-25931200-20190120231706/@comment-25931200-20190120234909

Xerped wrote: The entire point of Mandos is to help Elves recognize their evil deeds, and repent of them. Barring Elves who had done evil defeats the entire purpose of Mandos.

Xerped The Antisocial (Don't click this) From Tolkien gateway:

"For slain Elves, going to the Halls of Mandos was an option and not a requirement; their fëar could refuse the summons of Mandos and remain in Middle-earth, though if they made this choice they could not be reembodied. Refusal of the summons was seen as a sign of taint in the fëa, since Mandos' call is backed by the authority of the Valar, and because the presence of the Dark Lords Morgoth and Sauroncaused most fëar to flee to Mandos in terror of the power of the Shadow. Many who resisted the summons in those Ages succumbed to the "counter-summons" of the Dark Lords, falling under their dominion.[1] It was said that in later Ages, more and more Elvish fëar chose to ignore the summons and instead haunt places they had frequented in life. Because these fëar in many cases had unworthy motives (such as the desire to possess the hröar of others), it was forbidden to the Living to commune with them. Sauron's title "the Necromancer" might have referred to his practice of mastering these Houseless fëar and using them to do his will."