# Did Bilbo and Frodo go to Valinor?

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**Created:** [August 3, 2012, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-bilbo-and-frodo-go-to-valinor/630298 "2012-08-03T14:42:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-bilbo-and-frodo-go-to-valinor/630298/21 "2012-08-07T02:24:42Z")

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In the forward, Pippin went to Rivendell often, consulting with Celeborn who went there to live after Galadriel departed. Tolkien wrote “no one noted when Celeborn took ship, and with him left the last living memory of the elder days in middle earth.”

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**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-bilbo-and-frodo-go-to-valinor/630298/22 "2012-08-07T02:26:53Z")

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> [@the\_diego](#):
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> E&E would have chosen immortality as they eventually left for the havens. Celeborn I think was the last noble named elf to stay in Rivendell before he himself took ship.

Cirdan. Although Galadriel and Glorfindel (and Erestor?) are very likely much of similar age, although the first two are the only two likely to have lived in Valinor when the Trees existed. Cirdan has always lived his long life in Middle-Earth.

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