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Old 06-08-2007, 10:23 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by Finduilas
If you remember in the book, at the hill that the company stopped at in Lorien, it was written, "And Aragorn never saw the ... again." I don't know the direct quote. Was PJ trying to recreate this? I know when I first read the books that I got really worried over that line.
I believe the part you're talking about is this-

"At the hill's foot Frodo found Aragorn, standing still and silent as a tree; but in his hand was a small golden bloom of elanor , and a light was in his eyes. He was weapped in some fair memory: and as Frodo looked at him he knew that he beheld things as they once had been in this same place. For the grim years were removed from the face of Aragorn, and he seemed clothed in white, a young lord tall and fair; and he spoke words in the Elvish tongue to one whom Frodo could not see. Arwen vanimelda, namarie! he said, and then he drew a breath, and returning out of his thought he looked at Frodo and smiled.

'Here is the heart of Elvendom on earth, he said, and here my heart dwells ever, unless there be a light beyond the dark roads that we still must tread, you and I. Come with me!' And taking Frodo's hand in his, he left the hill of Cerin Amroth and came there never again as living man."
(The Fellowship of the Ring, Ch. VI)

Perhaps the quote in the movie also refers to this, as Aragorn never returns to Cerin Amroth. In the books, I believe C & G come with the host of Elves that bring Arwen, so they see the two joined together.
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