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Or am I mortal, ill and dying?
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If you are human, then you are technically dying the second you are born. ie you have a finite life. An elf doesn't.
The Arwen scenes don't really rattle with me, and I consider myself to be a 'purist' (well, I was when the films started coming out). I think it was a neat 'trick' to show that Arwen had made her decision to take mortality, and by showing her cold hands and her 'dying' was a clever cinematic way of doing this.
Tying Arwen to the Ring was a way (I believe) of kicking the movie Elrond's butt into action. He would do anything for his daughter, and that includes talking Aragorn out of his doubts.
Who says that Elrond is speaking the exact truth and not distorting the facts to talk Aragorn into getting
his butt into gear?
What I like about this movie (just like the book) is that you can read different things into the actions and motivations of the characters. Superb.