04-22-2003, 08:53 AM
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A Northern Soul
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Valinor
Posts: 1,847
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I wish to make it clear that I don't think Elros' children had a choice. But I think that it is also clear from the canon that the lines are not as clear cut as one might expect.
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Elros' children definitely did not have a choice. It is clear cut. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
Letter No. 153
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Elros chose to be a King and 'longaevus' but mortal, so all his descendants are mortal, and of a specially noble race, but with dwindling longevity: so Aragorn (who, however, has a greater life-span than his contemporaries, double, though not the original Númenórean treble, that of Men). Elrond chose to be among the Elves. His children - with a renewed Elvish strain, since their mother was Celebrían dtr. of Galadriel - have to make their choices.
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Point taken, not necessarily agreed upon,
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Where do you disagree?
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