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Originally Posted by Lolidir
I'm not sure if this will be deleted or what not but it has something to do with the topic.
I was watching the TT today and it talked about Arwen's fate being tied to the ring. I take the to mean that if the ring isn't detroyed and ME is taken over and everyone is enslaved and so forth that would be her fate also. Now i'm not sure what happened in the book ( I don't think it really says), but in the movie Arwen gets all weak and is like dying. Elrond puts it, "The light of the Valar is leaving her" or something like that. My question is why does she appear to be weak and dying, or is she just all depressed and if so about what?.
She gave up her immortality and became mortal and her fate was then tied to the ring. Does that have some deeper meaning, or just what I said?
Simply put how exactly is Arwen's fate tied to the ring.
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This is relevant to the topic, but this isn't how Tolkien's story goes. Peter Jackson added that "twist" for the movies.
If he meant her fate is tied to the Ring literally, that is a terrible stretch and distortion of the story. How is her fate all of the sudden tied to a Ring she's never had anything to do with? Sauron wouldn't have known Arwen.
If he want his movie line to fit the book's story, then we must presume that he meant she was just tied to it emotionally - that is, Arwen could not stand the thought of leaving Middle-earth and being immortal while she knew Aragorn would be left for dead as Sauron took over the world and destroyed his foes. As an immortal, she could still die from grief.
I think the latter is more reasonable. Despite Peter Jackson's distortions of the story, I'd like to think he wouldn't have taken on the bizarre change of Arwen being literally cursed by the Ring's fate.