Does Frodo Baggins have a wife or a girl friend? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Cazoz · 05-27-2003, 10:39 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>The people in Middle-earth didn't have girlfriends. They were either married, engaged (as in Aragorn and Arwen's case) or totally single. Or else they were courting their loved one.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Heh, but do we know anything about concubines? We aren't told anything about Boromir's romantic life, nor of Faramir's pre-Eowyn. As tall handsome war captains, they surely got their jollies from somewhere. I doubt very much that everyone in ME was as formal and <I>patient</I> as Aragorn and Arwen were with their love life.<P>And I always got a very hippy-esque vibe from the Elves, I wonder if their encounters were ever casual? I think I remember reading somewhere that a marriage ceremony wasn't necessary; that two unmarried Elves who had sex were essentially bonding themselves by that act. Thus would marriage even be the right word? Without the official ceremony and formality of the act in our world, wouldn't words like 'union' or 'bonding' be more apt than 'married'?

05-27-2003, 10:39 PM	#15
Cazoz Haunting Spirit Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: London, UK Posts: 71	<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>The people in Middle-earth didn't have girlfriends. They were either married, engaged (as in Aragorn and Arwen's case) or totally single. Or else they were courting their loved one.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Heh, but do we know anything about concubines? We aren't told anything about Boromir's romantic life, nor of Faramir's pre-Eowyn. As tall handsome war captains, they surely got their jollies from somewhere. I doubt very much that everyone in ME was as formal and <I>patient</I> as Aragorn and Arwen were with their love life.<P>And I always got a very hippy-esque vibe from the Elves, I wonder if their encounters were ever casual? I think I remember reading somewhere that a marriage ceremony wasn't necessary; that two unmarried Elves who had sex were essentially bonding themselves by that act. Thus would marriage even be the right word? Without the official ceremony and formality of the act in our world, wouldn't words like 'union' or 'bonding' be more apt than 'married'?