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Originally Posted by The Sixth Wizard
One wonders what drove respectable elf women to discard their perfect immortality for the possibility of a hundred years with Men like Turin or Beren.
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It's been studied in various species. The female, in order to incorporate new genes into the tribe, will mate with the 'outsider.' There's also the
cad-dad theory, which states that females like a cad now and then to just a plain old dad. And what could be plainer than a thousand-plus year old elf?
Luthien, obviously, knew that a hybrid would be more successful, and Beren was just so dashing, and if it didn't work out, he'd surely be dead in a hundred years or two.