Arwen's Mortality

[Raynor]

Originally Posted by Legolas

I think it was quite well planned. It has a greater purpose within the story. Letter No. 153:

I think we can view in the same line the prophecy of Melian, concerning Beren, who was the highly important to the above mentioned ennoblement:

Originally Posted by Of the coming of Men into the West

Now the world runs on swiftly to great tidings. And one of Men, even of Beor's house, shall indeed come, and the Girdle of Melian shall not restrain him, for doom greater than my power shall send him; and the songs that shall spring from that coming shall endure when all Middle-earth is changed.