An interesting question (thanks to my friends)
 

Next week, my literaty class is going the start "Fellowship." I never read the whole thing, but I know the basic knowledge of what's in it and what's not, ect, ect. (eg. Glorifindel, my friend. Stupid Peter Jackson)
So my friends come to me for helpful information, and in fact I started a tutoring group. I was disscussing the Nine main characters, and I got up to Aragorn, and I was saying how he was king, he loved Arwen (relating it to Romeo and Juliet)and how he had more names than a fugitive.
Then, I said that he was a child when he moved to Rivendell, and Arwen is thousands of years old.
My friend asks "Well, how old was Arwen when she first met Emeril?(she trying to be cool to get one of his newfound names right and still failing. Told her to stop watching the Cooking Channel) I was stupmed. I had no idea. We ended up having a heated debate on how old she was, that in fact she was, possibly, an adult to Aragorn and that she even helped raise him. Of course, I was unsure of any of these, therefore I said I would find out.

So I ask you: How old was Arwen, when she met Estel?

I don't know the exact answer at the moment, but I'm pretty sure she was about 2790 years old. Let me find my book to check.

Let's see... Arwen was born in the year 241 (her brothers are 111 years older than her!)...

They met in the year 2951...

So Arwen would be 2710 years old... I was pretty close!

To put it in a slightly different way, Arwen was born 28 generations of the Dunedain before Aragorn. The Dunedain weren't shortlived either... it's a pretty long time to wait for someone to grow up. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Sophia

Oh, and Arwen was never around when Aragorn was growing up, she spent those years in Lothlorien.