Doom of Mandos

The Doom of Mandos, also called the Doom of the Ñoldor, the Curse of Mandos or the Prophecy of the North, was the judgement of the Valar pronounced on the Elves that carried out the Kinslaying at Alqualondë:
:"Tears unnumbered ye shall shed; and the Valar will fence Valinor against you, and shut you out, so that not even the echo of your lamentation shall pass over the mountains. On the House of Fëanor the wrath of the Valar lieth from the West unto the uttermost East, and upon all that will follow them it shall be laid also. Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue. To evil end shall all things turn that they begin well; and by treason of kin unto kin, and the fear of treason, shall this come to pass. The Dispossessed shall they be for ever. ..."The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, Chapter IX: "Of the Flight of the Ñoldor"
The pronunciation of this Doom was the immediate cause of the return to Valinor of Finarfin and his followers, who were already reluctant to proceed. There they asked and received the forgiveness of the Valar.
== Behind the scenes ==
The Kinslaying could be the Elves' equivalent to Man's Original Sin, in that they fell to evil and were expelled from paradise. J.R.R. Tolkien was a devoted Catholic.
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Vloek van Mandos
Albanian 	Mallkimi i Mandos
Arabic 	لعنة ماندوس
Azerbaijani 	Mandosın Lənəti
Basque 	Mandosen madarikazioa
Bosnian 	Prokletstvo Mandosa
Catalan 	La maledicció de Mandos
Corsican 	A malidizioni di Mandos
Croatian 	Prokletstvo Mandosa
Czech 	Prokletí Mandos
Danish 	Mandos' forbandelse
Esperanto 	La malbeno de Mandos
Estonian 	Mandose needus
Finnish 	Mandosin kirous
French 	La malédiction de Mandos
German 	Spruch des Mandos
Greek 	Προφητεία-κατάρα του Μάντος
Gujarati 	મન્ડોઝનું શાપ
Hebrew 	קללת מאנדוס
Hindi 	मंडोस का अभिशाप
Hmong 	Tus Foom ntawm Mandos
Icelandic 	Bölvun Mandos
Indonesian 	Kutukan Mandos
Italian 	Maledizione di Mandos
Japanese 	マンドスの呪い
Kannada 	ಮಾಂಡೋಸ್ ಶಾಪ
Korean 	만도스의 저주
Lithuanian 	Mandos prakeikimas
Luxembourgish 	Dem Fluch vum Mandos
Macedonian Cyrillic	Проклетството на Мандос
Malaysian 	Laknat Mandos
Maori 	Te kanga o Mandos
Maltese 	Saħta ta 'Mandos
Marathi 	मांडोसचा शाप
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Мандос-ийн хараал
Nepalese 	मन्डोको अभिशाप
Norwegian 	Mandos' forbannelse
Persian 	نفرین ماندوس
Polish 	Przekleństwo Mandosa (The Curse of Mandos)
Wyrok Mandosa (The Judgement of Mandos)
Portuguese 	A maldição de Mandos
Punjabi 	ਮੰਡੋਸ ਦਾ ਸਰਾਪ
Romanian 	Blestemul lui Mandos
Russian 	Пророчество Мандоса
Samoan 	Fetuu o Mandos
Sardinian 	Maledizione de Mandos
Scottish Gaelic 	Mhallachd de Mandos
Serbian 	Проклетство Мандоса (Cyrillic) Prokletstvo Mandosa (Latin)
Sicilian 	Maledizione di Mandos
Sinhalese 	මන්දෝස්ගේ ශාපය
Slovak 	Prekliatie Mandos
Slovenian 	Prekletstvo Mandosa
Spanish 	La maldición de Mandos
Swahili 	Laana ya Mandos
Swedish 	Mandos' förbannelse
Tajik Cyrillic 	Лаънати Мандос ?
Tamil 	மாண்டோஸ் சாபம்
Telugu 	మాండోస్ యొక్క శాపం
Thai 	คำสาปแห่งมานดอส
Turkish 	Mandos'un Laneti
Turkmen 	Mandosyň Näleti
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Прокляття з Мандоса
Urdu 	مندوس کی لعنت
Uzbek 	Мандоснинг лаънати (Cyrillic) Mandosning la'nati (Latin)
Welsh 	Felltith o Mandos
Vietnamese 	Lời nguyền của Mandos
Yoruba 	Egún ti Mandos
Yiddish 	קללה פון מאַנדאָס
Zulu 	Isiqalekiso sama-Mandos
== References ==
fr:Destin des Ñoldor
it:Maledizione di Mandos
pl:Wyrok Mandosa 
ru:Пророчество Мандоса
de:Spruch der Noldor
Category:Oaths and prophecies