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05-26-2002, 04:00 PM | #1 |
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elves loving men
I was just wondering why when an elf marries a human it means that they become mortel, does this mean that they age or do they remain youthful and die after so long?
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05-26-2002, 05:02 PM | #2 |
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I can only find a couple of instances where a female Elf married a mortal man.
Hope this helps. [ May 26, 2002: Message edited by: Joy ]
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05-26-2002, 05:07 PM | #3 |
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Where does it say taht Arwen is half elven? Did i miss that somewhere? Can ya help me out?
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05-26-2002, 05:27 PM | #4 |
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Arwen is the Daughter of Elrond and Celebrian.
Celebrian is the Daughter of Galadriel and Celeborn of Lothlorien. Elrond is the son of Earendil and Elwing. Earendil is the son of Tuor and Idril, which was mentioned above.
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05-26-2002, 05:46 PM | #5 |
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Let me make a correction here. I would have done it in the previous post, but it might get a little confusing.
I stated that Earendil (Half-Elven) married Elwing (a female Elf). This is partly true, for Elwing was also Half-Elven. Elwing was the Daughter of Dior and Nimloth - an Elven maiden of Doriath. Dior was the son of Beren and Lłthien, which I have mentioned above. Even though Lłthien renounced her immortality, her son would have to make that choice himself. Because she renouced it, didn't mean that Dior nor his heirs would have that right taken away. Now, the question comes, what about Elros, the brother of Elrond? He chose mortality and it affected all his heirs, down through Aragorn.
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05-27-2002, 12:35 AM | #6 |
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I thought only Elrond and Elros were given the immediate choice of whether to be man or elf. If, Joy, as you say like Arwen, the offspring were given the choice, then the Numenorian kings who wished for and even warred for eternal life would have had no beef with the Valar. They would have been able to make their own choice. This was not the case, however. Elros's choice chose the Numenorian path.
I think because of Arwen's choice to love a man she was forced or even mandated by the law of the Valar that she must give up her immortality. I cannot give specific evidence to this fact, but didn't all the elf maidens who married men give up their spirit to Mandos as the price for their love?
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Earendil and Elwing were the first to be given the choice between Eldar or Edain.
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01-14-2003, 03:45 PM | #8 |
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Does anyone know of any instances of romances the other way around - that is, mortal women and elf men? I have come across none in my reading but I wondered if any of you that had read the Letters might have found discussions of this possibility...
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01-14-2003, 04:25 PM | #9 |
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Lalaith I've found no stories or hints of them where a mortal women marries an elf man. With the exception of course of the hundreds of Legolas fan fiction stories [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img].
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01-14-2003, 07:32 PM | #10 |
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Lalaith - No, there are no cases like that.
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Thanks guys. I just wondered if Tolkien had ever mentioned it...
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01-15-2003, 04:12 AM | #12 |
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Aegnor, son of Finarfin, loved Andreth, the great aunt of Beren, and she loved him back, but the duties of war stopped them from marrying.
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01-15-2003, 07:56 AM | #13 |
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That's interesting...where does that appear?
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01-15-2003, 08:34 AM | #14 |
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Look in the History of Middle-earth vol. 10, entitled Morgoth's Ring, which contains a chapter called Athrabeth Finrod Ah Andreth (the Debate or Converse between Finrod and Andreth) where reference is made to the mortal woman loving Finrod's brother Aegnor.
It is a poignant tale, filled with sadness and even some bitterness on Andreth's part. Their conversation gets into many questions about the nature of Man and Elf, the possible meaning of the Gift of Eru, and how that differs from Elvish immortality. The two even discuss the possibility that Eru himself may someday come within Arda to help begin the healing process. Written near the end of Tolkien's life, this piece gets into questions that aren' mentioned anywhere else. These were the type of philosophical speculations that Christopher comments on as being "out of sync" with what came before in Tolkien's writings. Personally, however, I find them fascinating!
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01-15-2003, 08:36 AM | #15 |
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Thank you very much!
I've only read Sil, LT, and UT, HoME sounds like a new challenge...
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