A la réflexion, je doute même que Frodo vive particulièrement longtemps an Aman. L'idée que la vie peut être prolongée au delà de la limite naturelle pour un race donnée est perçue comme associée au Mal, à la dénaturation dans l'oeuvre de Tolkien. Ainsi Tolkien écrivait-il :
"They must not set foot on 'immortal' lands, and so become enamoured of an immortality (within the world), which was against their law, the special doom or gift of Illuuvatar (God), and which their nature could not in fact endure"
(Letters, p.154-155)
Une note précise à ce sujet :
"This view is taken ( as clearly reapears later in the case of the Hobbits that have the Ring for a while) that each 'kind' has a natural span, integral to its boilogical and spiritual nature. This cannoy really be increased qualitatively or quantitatively ; so that prolongation in time is like stretching a wire out ever tauter, or 'spreading butter ever thinner' _ it becomes an intolerable torment"
Emeric