In this chapter Frodo, Sam, Pippin, and Merry are trying to rebuild the destroyed Hobbiton. After she loses Aragorn, Arwen wastes away just as Elrond had warned, and even outlives Galadriel before succumbing to her grave.ġ) By behaving reciprocally toward Arwen despite knowing that loving a mortal would doom her in the end, can Aragorn be blamed for Arwen’s slow and sad death? Or does the blame rest on Arwen herself for not trying to forget him and save herself?Ģ) What parts of the relationship between Aragorn and Arwen might have been inspired by the relationship between Tolkien and his wife Edith? Is it significant that Tolkien designed their relationship to fail (a mortal and an immortal), and if so, how? ![]() 371-372)” Their story starts off romantic but the tragedy of their very natures is what tears them apart, making it bittersweet more than anything. But who are you?” “Estel I was called,” he said “but I am Aragorn, Arathorn’s son, Isildur’s Heir, Lord of the Dúnedain” yet even in the saying he felt that this high lineage, in which his heart had rejoiced, was now of little worth, and as nothing compared to her dignity and loveliness. Though maybe my doom will be not unlike hers. But if you are not she, then you walk in her likeness.” “So many have said,” she answered gravely. Then the maiden turned to him and smiled, and she said: “Who are you? And why do you call me by that name?” ‘And he answered: “Because I believed you to be indeed Lúthien Tinúviel, of whom I was singing. And behold! there Lúthien walked before his eyes in Rivendell… For a moment Aragorn gazed in silence, but fearing that she would pass away and never be seen again, he called to her crying, Tinúviel, Tinúviel! even as Beren had done in the Elder Days long ago. ![]() ![]() Aragorn’s past is not brought up too often in the books aside from being related to Isildur in the appendix, Tolkien describes Aragorn’s childhood raised by Elrond and his first meeting with Arwen, which is incredibly sweet: “… Aragorn had been singing a part of the Lay of Lúthien which tells of the meeting of Lúthien and Beren in the forest of Neldoreth. The romantic relationship between Aragorn and Arwen is more prominent in the movies rather than the books, and getting a chance to see and to understand their history without the distraction of an ongoing Quest to defeat a great evil gives both Aragorn and Arwen more depth as characters. I have read the books before, but did not read the appendixes and thus missed out on such a pivotal part of Aragorn’s past. ![]() It is hard to really ‘analyze’ an appendix since it is more of an index containing snippets of historical information than an actual chapter this being said, I found reading the segment on Aragorn and Arwen’s relationship to be very worthwhile. Many intricacies that would not have fit into the story are thoroughly detailed within the contents of the appendix, adding dimension after dimension to Tolkien’s world. There are specific mentions to the line of Isildur, as well as to the practice of Stewards in Gondor and even the lives of Durin’s Folk. The Appendix, which comes at the end of the book, is a section packed full of little details about the rich history of Middle Earth and its rulers.
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