Yes, it is odd, isn't it, that choice is not for all those with mixed parentage. And it is a very good point about Finduilas, which I hadn't thought of before. Also, as Eomer married Imrahil's daughter, their children would also have an Elven strain....
One thing occurs to me. Is there a Tolkien quote anywhere where he specificly says that Elrond's children were asked to make a choice. I know that Arwen gave up her place on the ship to Frodo, but I wonder if that might not have been a case of 'special pleading.' Aragorn on his deathbed seems to think Arwen could still go West. That always puzzled me. I mean, at some point in their decades-long engagement and centuries-long marriage, they might have found time to thrash out this fairly important issue before...
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