[Perdogg]

Ai! Aníron Undómiel

[Perdogg]

ping

[fkabuckeyesrule]

I got the Lord Of The Rings trilogy for Christmas (as well as Hunger Games trilogy).

[Redcitizen]

It would have been easier if the Fellowship of the Ring had flown over Mt. Doom with Eagles and airdropped the Ring into the volcano. That would save a lot of blood, sweat and tears.

[Louis Foxwell]

Auden, the very essence of “unnecessary and perfunctory.” TR was wise enough to understand the human heart, and especially the essence of romantic love.

[digger48]

There's only one romance in LOTR that is acceptable in Obamaville.

[DManA]

He should have dropped it since they were two separate species. Which is creepy.

[discostu]

He called that a romance? I mean they got together in the end but I’m not sure it qualifies as a romance, they don’t even talk hardly.

[ProudFossil]

As someone who has read the complete Lord of the Rings several times (please note it is not a trilogy but a LARGE narrative simply broken into three parts) I must disagree with the conclusion the story would be better by removing the romance. This romantic layer within the Elves actually gives them some humanistic characteristics. That are not without “good” emotions and this proves it. They are not simply logical beings, ala, Spock. Rather they also have the more elevated feelings which makes them even more admirable.

[Rebelbase]

If Auden couldn’t have an Elven chick then no one should.

[Olog-hai]

Auden seems to have missed the other man/elf-maiden romance in LOTR, that being the union between Beren and Lúthien.

[Usagi_yo]

Racist movie :/

[pgyanke]

At the end, Aragorn is crowned king of Gondor, and marries Arwen, the daughter of Elrond, "Evenstar of her people".

Damn... spoilers...

;)

[YHAOS]

The course of TRUE LOVE is never easy!

[Mr Rogers]

My daughter read the books in the first grade. She also read the appendices. She thought Arwen & Aragorn made no sense:

“What would someone who was over 2500 years old see in a 50 year old human?”

Hmmmm...just how serious would someone born in 700 BC feel about a human being born in 1960? What would they talk about? Auden, and my daughter, were right!

[Kartographer]

The answer here is simple Tolkien was a ardent Christian and as so he knew:

Three things will last forever--faith, hope, and love--and the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13

[Altariel]

Glad he didn’t listen.

[Ransomed]

Here’s an essay gene Wolfe wrote around 2000 or so concerning Tolkien. Pretty good stuff, he actually wrote Tolkien a letter back in the day and I guess Tolkien responded.

http://www.thenightland.co.uk/MYWEB/wolfemountains.html

Freegards

[1010RD]

She’s right. It’s a nonsense storyline, proved by the movies.