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Tsum-Tsum T-shirt, by Disney |
WALLPAPER |
 Untitled by Grant Gould (for StarWars.com) |
FAN ART |
 by master--burglar |
FAN FICTION |
Rush by Love and Rock Music. (TCW) The first half of "Destroy Malevolence," as Anakin and Padmé make their way towards each other. |
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CALENDAR
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MISCELLANEOUS : PARALLEL COUPLES
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Couple:
Aragorn and Arwen Lucas might've borrowed straight from Tolkien in the foundations of this romance: a young man wandering in a lovely wood comes across the most beautiful woman he has ever seen. He thinks he's strayed into a dream, and thinks her the likeness of Luthien (the most beautiful being to ever walk Middle-earth). He calls her as such; she is politely amused by the flatteries of one so young. She is far older than he - almost 2000 years! - but he is no less instantly in love with
her. She finds him charming in an inexperienced sort of way, and
certainly does not consider him as a romantic partner.
Sound
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It
is not explicitly forbidden, but it is extremely rare and frowned-upon:
a union between immortal Elf and mortal Man. To bind
to a mortal would mean for Arwen to forsake her immortality as well as her place in the
sacred land of Valinor that Elvenkind go to instead of death.
After that first encounter, Aragorn dwells deeply and often on Arwen, despite the warnings from his mother and her father that such a union is highly unlikely. Arwen's father Elrond will not have her forsake her immortality for a mortal any less than the king of the lands of both Gondor and Arnor. Aragorn spends many years traveling through Middle-earth and fighting in the cause against the evil lord Sauron, becoming the most skilled and able man in Middle-earth. One day when he has come of age Aragorn returns to the Elven woods of Lorien, and Arwen's grandmother Galadriel (queen of Lorien, who is fond of him) clads him in Elven clothing, rendering him so striking he looks almost an Elf-lord himself. This is the first time Arwen has seen him in ages, and when she sees him then... "her choice was made and her doom appointed." The
two pledge themselves to one another despite that they are still
forbidden to be together. For long years they are
separated by war, Aragorn traveling through Middle-earth as part of a
band of Men protecting it from Sauron's forces, seeing each other very
infrequently. At last after Sauron's defeat he becomes King, and he and Arwen
are wed and she becomes his Queen.
Unlike
Padmé and Anakin, Aragorn and Arwen are blessed with a hundred and
twenty happy years together, as well as several children. However,
their ending is still bittersweet: by choosing a life with
Aragorn, Arwen gave up the eternal happiness she would have had in the
land of Valinor, and must one day face the pain and grief his mortality
as well as her own. After their 120 years together Aragorn finally
dies, and Arwen lays herself down on the hill where she and Aragorn
first pledged to one another, and herself dies.
[The
quote in the graphic is Arwen, regarding her forebearer Luthien and the
choice Luthien herself made in joining with a mortal, Beren. Once
I go back and look at The Silmarillion I might include a bit more
on Beren and Luthien here at some point, as Aragorn/Arwen is a
deliberate mirroring of their romance. I do remember Beren lost
his hand at some point, which is all too familiar a maiming for SW fans.] |
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