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Arwen was also about the only person he could have married to reestablish the Royal House as it was of old Gondor, strong-blooded and long-lived.
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It's funny that this should be really: normally genealogies like that of Aragorn's family turn out all sorts of genetic abnormalities; yet in the case of the Dúnedain the paucity of familial branches is taken to be a source of strength. Perhaps Elven blood is clear of inherited defects.
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Well, that's the thing. I'm never quite sure how to interpret Tolkien's world, because he certainly places it as a history of this universe that we live in now, yet it seems to follow rules that we think of as characteristic of myth.
Maybe the fact that marrying our cousins screws us up signifies the weakening of men as Time flows ever onward. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
08-29-2002, 11:02 PM
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