The people of Middle Earth really need to be more specific than “he fell”. Sometimes it means they’re dead - other times it means they tripped up and will be back after a brief dream-sequence. Even they often don’t seem sure which it is.
Gave up on the Handmaid’s Tale, as half of each episode was a flashback to one of the characters visiting a cafe in the times before Trump’s second term - which the writers probably thought was brilliant character and world building, but was actually wheelspinning.