Ok this is not going to be the most diplomatic post I've ever made, mainly because, as I've said before' I think this topic is a load of dingo kidneys.
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The split that produces twins is no choice of the mother, though she would probably realize sometime during pregnancy that she was carrying twins. So the birth would be no surprise, I assume.
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See, my point is that we first have a irrelevant topic, as Tolkien never discussed it or in any way gave any written thought to it - then we take the topic and base our arguments conserning it on assumptions.
The bad guy in Under Siege II said:
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Assumption is the mother of all ****-ups
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Sorry about the language...
Actually I would go as far as saying that this is assumption based on speculations.
But I do agree that Elvish women did not have control over the choice to have either Twins or not - you would kinda think/
(ASSUME [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] )that if you had 5 sons already a wise woman like Nerdanel would think twice before getting Amrod and Amras.
[ August 10, 2002: Message edited by: Telchar ]