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Did Shadowfax go to Valinor?



Unicorn Meta Zoo #1: Why another podcast?
Announcing the arrival of Valued Associate #679: Cesar Manara
Favorite questions and answers from first quarter of 2019
Latest Blog Post: FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention (Spring 2019)Did the Ring Bearers and Gimli die in Valinor?How did Shadowfax 'appear' when Gandalf summoned him?What is the difference between Aman, Valinor, the Undying Lands, etc?How did they determine the music for the songs sung in Peter Jackson's “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” film trilogies?What did the Hobbits call the story we know as The Lord of the Rings?Which stones adorned the other rings of Power?Did Frodo meet any of Valar or Maiar when he sailed to Valinor?Who were the three riders that passed Gandalf, Pippin, and Shadowfax?Could Gandalf read minds?Why can't Elves create more Rings?



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I seem to recall that Shadowfax was taken with Gandalf to Valinor, but I have not been able to find a clear reference in the Lord of the Rings. Is there any writing by Tolkien adressing this question?










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          Tolkien wrote on this subject in a letter to a fan. It was his belief that Shadowfax did indeed travel with Gandalf, despite it not being mentioned specifically.




          I think Shadowfax certainly went with Gandalf [across the Sea], though
          this is not stated. I feel it is better not to state everything (and
          indeed it is more realistic, since in chronicles and accounts of
          ‘real’ history, many facts that some enquirer would like to know are
          omitted, and the truth has to be discovered or guessed from such
          evidence as there is).
          I should argue so: Shadowfax came of a special
          race (II 126, 129, III 346) being as it were an Elvish equivalent of
          ordinary horses: his ‘blood’ came from ‘West over Sea’. It would not
          be unfitting for him to ‘go West’. Gandalf was not ‘dying’, or going
          by a special grace to the Western Land, before passing on ‘beyond the
          circles of the world’: he was going home, being plainly one of the
          ‘immortals’, an angelic emissary of the angelic governors (Valar) of
          the Earth. He would take or could take what he loved. Gandalf was last
          seen riding Shadowfax (III 276). He must have ridden to the Havens,
          and it is inconceivable that he would [have] ridden any beast but
          Shadowfax; so Shadowfax must have been there. A chronicler winding up
          a long tale, and for the moment moved principally by the sorrow of
          those left behind (himself among them!) might omit mention of the
          horse; but had the great horse also shared in the grief of sundering,
          he could hardly have been forgotten.



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            Tolkien wrote on this subject in a letter to a fan. It was his belief that Shadowfax did indeed travel with Gandalf, despite it not being mentioned specifically.




            I think Shadowfax certainly went with Gandalf [across the Sea], though
            this is not stated. I feel it is better not to state everything (and
            indeed it is more realistic, since in chronicles and accounts of
            ‘real’ history, many facts that some enquirer would like to know are
            omitted, and the truth has to be discovered or guessed from such
            evidence as there is).
            I should argue so: Shadowfax came of a special
            race (II 126, 129, III 346) being as it were an Elvish equivalent of
            ordinary horses: his ‘blood’ came from ‘West over Sea’. It would not
            be unfitting for him to ‘go West’. Gandalf was not ‘dying’, or going
            by a special grace to the Western Land, before passing on ‘beyond the
            circles of the world’: he was going home, being plainly one of the
            ‘immortals’, an angelic emissary of the angelic governors (Valar) of
            the Earth. He would take or could take what he loved. Gandalf was last
            seen riding Shadowfax (III 276). He must have ridden to the Havens,
            and it is inconceivable that he would [have] ridden any beast but
            Shadowfax; so Shadowfax must have been there. A chronicler winding up
            a long tale, and for the moment moved principally by the sorrow of
            those left behind (himself among them!) might omit mention of the
            horse; but had the great horse also shared in the grief of sundering,
            he could hardly have been forgotten.



            Tolkien: Letter 268







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              Tolkien wrote on this subject in a letter to a fan. It was his belief that Shadowfax did indeed travel with Gandalf, despite it not being mentioned specifically.




              I think Shadowfax certainly went with Gandalf [across the Sea], though
              this is not stated. I feel it is better not to state everything (and
              indeed it is more realistic, since in chronicles and accounts of
              ‘real’ history, many facts that some enquirer would like to know are
              omitted, and the truth has to be discovered or guessed from such
              evidence as there is).
              I should argue so: Shadowfax came of a special
              race (II 126, 129, III 346) being as it were an Elvish equivalent of
              ordinary horses: his ‘blood’ came from ‘West over Sea’. It would not
              be unfitting for him to ‘go West’. Gandalf was not ‘dying’, or going
              by a special grace to the Western Land, before passing on ‘beyond the
              circles of the world’: he was going home, being plainly one of the
              ‘immortals’, an angelic emissary of the angelic governors (Valar) of
              the Earth. He would take or could take what he loved. Gandalf was last
              seen riding Shadowfax (III 276). He must have ridden to the Havens,
              and it is inconceivable that he would [have] ridden any beast but
              Shadowfax; so Shadowfax must have been there. A chronicler winding up
              a long tale, and for the moment moved principally by the sorrow of
              those left behind (himself among them!) might omit mention of the
              horse; but had the great horse also shared in the grief of sundering,
              he could hardly have been forgotten.



              Tolkien: Letter 268







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                Tolkien wrote on this subject in a letter to a fan. It was his belief that Shadowfax did indeed travel with Gandalf, despite it not being mentioned specifically.




                I think Shadowfax certainly went with Gandalf [across the Sea], though
                this is not stated. I feel it is better not to state everything (and
                indeed it is more realistic, since in chronicles and accounts of
                ‘real’ history, many facts that some enquirer would like to know are
                omitted, and the truth has to be discovered or guessed from such
                evidence as there is).
                I should argue so: Shadowfax came of a special
                race (II 126, 129, III 346) being as it were an Elvish equivalent of
                ordinary horses: his ‘blood’ came from ‘West over Sea’. It would not
                be unfitting for him to ‘go West’. Gandalf was not ‘dying’, or going
                by a special grace to the Western Land, before passing on ‘beyond the
                circles of the world’: he was going home, being plainly one of the
                ‘immortals’, an angelic emissary of the angelic governors (Valar) of
                the Earth. He would take or could take what he loved. Gandalf was last
                seen riding Shadowfax (III 276). He must have ridden to the Havens,
                and it is inconceivable that he would [have] ridden any beast but
                Shadowfax; so Shadowfax must have been there. A chronicler winding up
                a long tale, and for the moment moved principally by the sorrow of
                those left behind (himself among them!) might omit mention of the
                horse; but had the great horse also shared in the grief of sundering,
                he could hardly have been forgotten.



                Tolkien: Letter 268







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                Tolkien wrote on this subject in a letter to a fan. It was his belief that Shadowfax did indeed travel with Gandalf, despite it not being mentioned specifically.




                I think Shadowfax certainly went with Gandalf [across the Sea], though
                this is not stated. I feel it is better not to state everything (and
                indeed it is more realistic, since in chronicles and accounts of
                ‘real’ history, many facts that some enquirer would like to know are
                omitted, and the truth has to be discovered or guessed from such
                evidence as there is).
                I should argue so: Shadowfax came of a special
                race (II 126, 129, III 346) being as it were an Elvish equivalent of
                ordinary horses: his ‘blood’ came from ‘West over Sea’. It would not
                be unfitting for him to ‘go West’. Gandalf was not ‘dying’, or going
                by a special grace to the Western Land, before passing on ‘beyond the
                circles of the world’: he was going home, being plainly one of the
                ‘immortals’, an angelic emissary of the angelic governors (Valar) of
                the Earth. He would take or could take what he loved. Gandalf was last
                seen riding Shadowfax (III 276). He must have ridden to the Havens,
                and it is inconceivable that he would [have] ridden any beast but
                Shadowfax; so Shadowfax must have been there. A chronicler winding up
                a long tale, and for the moment moved principally by the sorrow of
                those left behind (himself among them!) might omit mention of the
                horse; but had the great horse also shared in the grief of sundering,
                he could hardly have been forgotten.



                Tolkien: Letter 268








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