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Originally Posted by Arvegil145
2) You're also right about the 'Houses' situation - however, I did point out (maybe not as emphatically as I should've) that it is only for the most part that Tolkien had such a notion of a 'House': implying, of course, that there are exceptions.
But perhaps I'm wrong about my assumptions.
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The 'Generational Schemes' text you were quoting from does have:
"It was arranged – for Imin, Tata, and Enel said men [i.e., Elvish males] awoke first, and began the families – that when any woman married one of another Company, she was reckoned to have joined the Company of her husband. The exchange was about equal and does not affect calculations materially. For the same reason, descent of authority was reckoned from the immediate father; but women were in no way considered less or unequal, and Quendian genealogy traced both lines of descent with care."