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Man-of-the-Wold · 03-22-2003, 05:03 PM

Another point I wanted to make about the significance of the lineage arising from Elwing and Earendil was that because of the choice for them and their children, something metaphysically Elvish (and even Maian) passed into Men, through them.

Other unions as there may have been in Belfalas or elsewhere were governed by the default rule that I noted above, and the offspring would have at most carried elvish traits only in terms of the biological features of the elven parent.

So, for example, Dior was beautiful and mighty, and perhaps elvish-seeming in many ways for his lifetime, but even if unknown at the time, he was in no way immortal.

03-22-2003, 05:03 PM	#11
Man-of-the-Wold Wight Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: With Tux, dread poodle of Pinnath Galin Posts: 239	Another point I wanted to make about the significance of the lineage arising from Elwing and Earendil was that because of the choice for them and their children, something metaphysically Elvish (and even Maian) passed into Men, through them. Other unions as there may have been in Belfalas or elsewhere were governed by the default rule that I noted above, and the offspring would have at most carried elvish traits only in terms of the biological features of the elven parent. So, for example, Dior was beautiful and mighty, and perhaps elvish-seeming in many ways for his lifetime, but even if unknown at the time, he was in no way immortal. __________________ The hoes unrecked in the fields were flung, __ and fallen ladders in the long grass lay __ of the lush orchards; every tree there turned __ its tangled head and eyed them secretly, __ and the ears listened of the nodding grasses; __ though noontide glowed on land and leaf, __ their limbs were chilled.

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