It seems a little bit silly to talk about Elvish death in the first place, since the Elves are frequently described as immortal, a word which literally means "not susceptible to death." However, to Tolkien, Elves aren't really immortal they're functionally immortal, but the natural span of their lives is not actually infinite: What does "death" mean for Tolkien's Elves? If they refuse the summons, they haunt the incarnate world as ghosts.If it returns to Mandos, it spends a period of time in a purgatory-like state, before possibly (at the discretion of the Vala Mandos and at their own choice) re-born into a new body.Their soul gets separated from its body, and invited to Aman and the Halls of Mandos.Fortunately, Tolkien wrote about this extensively in an essay titled "Laws and Customs Among the Eldar".
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