Tolkien=Matchmaker?

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Um, if Tolkien himself wrote that Elrond married Celebrian for love (I haven't read the UT but deducing from your comment regarding it, I assume that it alludes to that somewhere; please correct me if I am wrong, or provide a quotation), it's not exactly possible for us to say he's "wrong."

This is fiction, right? There are his characters, correct? Or is it okay for us to say something along the lines of: "well, Tolkien didn't really know what he was talking about, let's set him straight."

As for Galadriel and Celeborn, that one is pretty straightforward. They met, fell in love, got married. I don't see why Celebrian could not have followed in her mother's footsteps. Same with Arwen. For God's sake, Elrond wouldn't even allow that marriage until Aragorn had made something out of himself, and they had to go through all that careful planning and waiting. If Aragorn really wanted a marriage of convenience and political significance, he would have gone with Eowyn, or someone along those lines, I believe.