"I think these entities that snatch people out of their own worlds may have a preference for dead people. Maybe because we cause less trouble after being kidnapped. You and Xingchen might meet in another world, or maybe he'll come back to the Voidtrecker Express, who knows? I wish you both well, and hope that you may meet again."

Curufin believes in second chances, but he doubts the occurrence of these has anything to do with being deserved. Curufin couldn't be considered by any sane Middle-earth dweller to have deserved a second chance, nor by his gods, for that matter. But maybe the multiverse has different standards.

"Do you believe that things only happen if they are meant to be? And who or what decides what is meant to be?"