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Old 01-12-2004, 08:32 AM   #9
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Lost One, right on! Tolkien used many of the obscurer medieval legends in his mythos, and I daresay that the fairy-ancestress theme appears more than once. Don't forget, one of the ancestors of the Tooks was said to have taken a fairy wife, in The Hobbit, which would explain the love for adventure, in that adventuresome family.

I don't think that we can use any Role-Playing Games as definitive sources, because they have a history of making things up. Mithrellas' children couldn't possibly have received the "Choice of the Half-elven" because only Earendil's children were given that choice, because of their parents' great deed (sailing to Valinor). All other children of half-elven unions would be mortal, according to Iluvatar.
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