Is Arwen a reincarnation of Luthien the Fair?!!!
 

Just wondering, But does anyone else get the general feeling that Arwen is the reincarnation of Luthien Tinuviel?!!!!!

No, I don't get that feeling. She was her great-great-granddaughter and looks something like her, and shared her doom. But my understanding is that's about it.

Tolkien once got a letter like this and said that she was not the inncarnation of Luthien. Luthien was turned from and Elf to a Woman and when she died her spirit left Middle-Earth and never returned. Arwen therefore can't be her spirit in another form as Luthien is long gone, her spirit far from Middle-Earth. However Tolkien did say that they were extremly similar and shared a similar fate. They even looked so alike that when Aragorn first saw Arwen he called to her with the name Luthien.

In FoTR, chapter many meetings, it does say that in Arwen thet it was considered that the likeness of Luthien had come back to Middle Earth, but not that she had been reincarnated as Arwen.

Well, I have a great-great-grandfather that I look a lot alike. And since Arwen was Luthien's great-great-granddaughter she probably looked at lot like her. She also looked a lot like her father Elrond.

Though what I may say here is a bit off, I think It's sort of like the genes skipping every after generation. So Lutien's genes landed on Arwen at the right time, only better than the other generations before her.

Just a thought.

If Arwen did not look like Luthien would Aragorn have loved her? If not, what of the quote above?
Perhaps her likeness to Luthien was not merely a chance of genetics.