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14Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel?
C. S. Lewis • The C. S. Lewis Bible: For Reading, Reflection, and Inspiration
The Doom (or the Gift) of Men is mortality, freedom from the circles of the world. Since the point of view of the whole cycle is the Elvish, mortality is not explained mythically: it is a mystery of God of which no more is known than that ‘what God has purposed for Men is hidden’: a grief and an envy to the immortal Elves.
Christopher Tolkien • The Silmarillion
3Then the LORD said, “My spirit shall not abide[22] in mortals forever, for they are flesh; their days shall be one hundred twenty years.”
C. S. Lewis • The C. S. Lewis Bible: For Reading, Reflection, and Inspiration
‘Dorian Gray’.