According to all that's been said and done, one must assume (an educated assumption therefore) <PERSON> went with <PERSON> to the West, regardless if to Valinor or one of the off-shore isles. The "West" has always been a place of paradise and everlasting, this would include the Islands off the coast of Vailor, otherwise, why even go when you can live in Middle Earth to the same age, AND among friends and family and familiarity? It would not make sense to go to another land and die there at the expected age, without your people in full comfort. Did <PERSON> go because of the beauty of <PERSON>? While he loved her it would seem that would not alone grant him to live in the West. He went because of his bond with <PERSON> and that he was involved in the Fellowship, closely connected to the wishes and wants and needs of <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>, all elves or West-sent. It is very clear both <PERSON> and <PERSON> left Middle Earth for the undying lands, on elvish ship, which is stated in the books. They were accepted because they were "ring bearers" namely, but also part of the same Fellowship Gimli was. The healing was simply part of the package, or part of life in Valinor or the isles. <PERSON>'s leaving Middle Earth was not an invitation, and here is where it can get grey. The Valar could not change the laws or rules their God had created on the lands, and mortals. Mortals could only live for a while in the West. But what of the isles off the shore of Valinor? What we have are NOTES <PERSON> had, notes that were likely unfinished ideas, theories. 88
It must be said that <PERSON>, <PERSON> and <PERSON>, were INVITED to go and live in the West. In the books, The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, The Lord Of The Rings, we are not told any direction on how to interpret what would become of them had they been invited, accepted as Live-among-us type, which should lead us to believe they were GIVEN a gift, not to go there and die even with an added 50 years, and for what(?), but to live among elves as immortals. We have the books, notes which were likely not finished, and reason to go along with. As it goes in this story, there are always exceptions to rules, or new or different ways of seeing something, as <PERSON> kept writing. I must believe according to all I have read, the three invited guests had to have lived as immortals in the West. As for <PERSON>, he was in deed a ring bearer, but he was mortal and not invited. Or, was he, as ring bearers have the right of passage. Had <PERSON> lived ten or fifteen more years, we may have had more clear answers. <PERSON>, <PERSON> and <PERSON> therefore, for me, lived in the West for ever, while <PERSON> is a question. But why go only to have <PERSON> and others see him die. It doesn't make sense. All who are welcomed in Valinor or the isles therefore should be granted life forever. 381