Wondering about the Elves...

[Nazgûl Queen]

Originally posted by Elendur:
<STRONG>When Luthien was with Beren she decided to marry him.</STRONG>

<center><font color="red">Correct me if I'm wrong...
But from what I've read in the Silmarillion, Beren was killed... so Luthien went to the halls of Mandos and sang to him, begging for Berens life.
Mandos felt pity for her and went to seek Manwe's advice. Luthien was given two choices - she could go to Valinor and forget all her grief, or be sent back to Middleearth with Beren, where both would have to die a second death.

So she became mortal because it was the only way to save Beren's life.

But the other choice was this: that she might return to Middleearth, and take with her beren, there to dwell again, but without certitude of life or joy. Then she would become mortal, and subject to a second death, even as he; and ere long she would leave the world forever, and her beauty become only a memory in song. This doom she chose...