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I agree as well. As a matteroffact, I read in the notes of the Athrabeth where CT points out that Finrod's view is the most likely, because had Men been made immortal, they would not have been Men, they would have been Elves. There would have then been no great differences in fate or nature of the two races, which IMO would have made for a rather boring story.
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Hmm... I always got the impression that the two were interchangeable. It's the good numenoreans that follow the light and are willing to die. It's the bad ones that are afraid of death.
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