Arwen was part of the council. In fact she was sitting right next to her father and brothers. Perhaps Sir Tolkien thought that a woman in the fellowship would possibly complicate things. As a woman I know we can mess with a man's sometimes sensible head (one of our many gifts....Mwa ha ha haaa).
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"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve!"-Bilbo Baggins
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