[The Squatter of Amon Rûdh]

You're right about the ancestry of Elwing and Earendil, Varda: Earendil is the son of Idril and Tuor, and Elwing is the grand-daughter of Beren and Luthien. However, if we apply that logic then Aragorn and Arwen don't count either: Arwen's father is the son of Elwing and Earendil and his brother is Aragorn's direct antecedent in the male line, which makes Arwen part-human and Aragorn part-elf. It also means that there are dangerously few branches in their family tree. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

This means that Beren and Luthien and Tuor and Idril are the only two couples of which one party was purely Elven and the other was purely human. I think that we're intended to see all four as alliances of Men and Elves, probably more in a dynastic than a genetic sense.

[ August 28, 2002: Message edited by: Squatter of Amon Rudh ]