What Arwen was (or was not):
Letter 345:
"Arwen was not an elf, but one of the half-elven who abandoned her elvish rights."
When Arwen made her Choice:
Tale of Aragorn and Arwen (App. A):
"It came to pass that when Aragorn was nine and forty years of age he returned from perils on the dark confines of Mordor,... and on his way he came to the borders of Lórien and was admitted to the hidden land by the Lady Galadriel.
He did not know it, but Arwen Undómiel was also there, dwelling again for a time with the kin of her mother. She was little changed, for the mortal years had passed her by, yet her face was more grave, and her laughter now seldom was heard. But Aragorn was grown to full stature of body and mind, and Galadriel bade him cast aside his wayworn raiment, and she clothed him in silver and white, with a cloak of elven-grey and a bright gem on his brow. Then more than any kind of Men he appeared, and seemed rather an Elf-lord from the Isles of the West. And thus it was that Arwen first beheld him again after their long parting; and as he came walking towards her under the trees of Caras Galadhon laden with flowers of gold, her choice was made and her doom appointed."
Who gets to Choose:
HoME 5"
"Now all those who have the blood of mortal Men, in whatever part, great or small, are mortal, unless other doom be granted to them; but in this matter the power of doom is given to me [Manwe]."
[ March 23, 2003: Message edited by: Tar Elenion ]
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