LOTR: Was Rivendell Abandoned After The War Of The Ring?

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The War of the Ring brought about a very new and different Age of Middle Earth than those that had come before it. It spelled the end of many things, the closing of many chapters in their history. It brought an end to the evil that Sauron had infected the lands with for hundreds of years and spelled a new era of peace for the free peoples of the world unlike any that had ever been known, even in the legendary days of the Numenorians before their downfall.

But as well as ridding the world of the dark lord’s malice, it also ended the age of elves, the oldest race of beings who had lived for thousands of years, since Eru created the lands and the Valar first began to sing songs of Middle Earth.

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The parting of the elves across the sea, as they traveled west to their sanctuary in the Undying Lands, was a sad loss for Middle Earth, because they took a lot of the magic and the beauty of the realm with them. The destruction of the one ring left the three elven rings of power without their enchanting effects also, which meant that many of the ethereal kingdoms and dwellings of the fair race also fell into decline.

Iconic places from across the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies like Mirkwood and Lorien became totally different after the war had ended, for Mirkwood it became a greener, healthier place away from the malice of Dol-Guldur and the infection of the giant spiders, for Lorien it became an autumnal place, still beautiful, but devoid of the starlight of Galadriel’s ring Nenya. But the most well know elven realm in both films is arguably Rivendell, which was known for its healing and its wisdom. So what happened to Rivendell after the