I just want to add one more quote from the Story of Aragorn and Arwen.
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"I won't say words of consolation, for there's no consolation for a pain that great within the limits of this world; yours is a last choice; either to repent and depart for the Harbors, carrying the memory of the days that passed while we lived together, a memory that will forever be green there, but only a memory; or else wait for the Destiny of Men."
"No, oh beloved lord," she said, "since a long time ago there's no such choice. There are no ships that can take me there, and indeed by force I shall wait the Destiny of Men, either wanting or rejecting it. But only this I will certainly say, oh King of the Númenóreans: until before now I hadn't understood the story of your people and their fall, and I mocked them, thinking them vain and evil; but now I finally pity them. For if this is the gift, like the Eldar say, that the One concedes Men, well, indeed it's a bitter gift."
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Yes, Arwen says that there is no ship that can carry her to the Undying Lands which we know wasn't true. But Aragorn's words put Arwen in final "test" and as all good characters she passes it; she has chosen her road and will follow it to the end. But the main point here is what Aragorn states as his last words:
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"Indeed," he said. "But let's not abandon ourselves to pain, we who in other time renounced the Shadow and the Dusk. Sorrowfully we part, but not without hope. Behold! We aren't held forever inside the walls of this world, and on the other side there's more than memory. Farewell!"
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The hope for Undomiel lies not in the West but beyond. Again - hope without guarantees.
P.S. I love that part of their story, just see my sig. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]