LotR1-FotR-Seq09

[Macalaure]

Just a little thing that caught my eye having watched FotR for the umpteenth time:

Next Aragorn cleans moss and leaves from his mother’s gravestone, she who gave Middle Earth hope. An oddly familiar stature, and I wonder what others see here.

Why does Aragorn have to clean his mother's gravestone? Is there no elf in the whole of Rivendell to do it while Aragorn is away most of the year? Or were all Dunedain since Aranarth buried in Rivendell and so, even while spending all their time on cleaning graves, the elves simply couldn't keep up with this task?

It's a very nice scene, I know, but again it's one that makes little sense once you think about it.

(or maybe I just overrate the elves' cleanliness. They desperately lack brooms in Lorien)