BoyElroy
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Here's a question for the "Rings" fans out there:
Everyone who's read the books or seen the movie knows that Arwen resigns herself to a doomed mortal life on Middle Earth after the last of the Elven ships sails without her from the Grey Havens. She dies broken hearted after Aragorn dies and leaves her alone, surely a great tragedy.
And yet, in the Appendices to the "Rings", there's a passage that says that AFTER Aragorn dies, Legolas and Gimli build an Elven boat from some Elven wood and sail away from Middle Earth together for the land of the elves.
So it seems pretty clear that the friggin' elf and dwarf could have taken Arwen with them, but decided not to! They left her behind, ditched her -- now how cold is that?
Or am I missing something here?
Everyone who's read the books or seen the movie knows that Arwen resigns herself to a doomed mortal life on Middle Earth after the last of the Elven ships sails without her from the Grey Havens. She dies broken hearted after Aragorn dies and leaves her alone, surely a great tragedy.
And yet, in the Appendices to the "Rings", there's a passage that says that AFTER Aragorn dies, Legolas and Gimli build an Elven boat from some Elven wood and sail away from Middle Earth together for the land of the elves.
So it seems pretty clear that the friggin' elf and dwarf could have taken Arwen with them, but decided not to! They left her behind, ditched her -- now how cold is that?
Or am I missing something here?