Where Are the Aragorn and Arwen Web Sites?

And though Aragorn and Arwen won't be the only LOTR characters to suddenly emerge into major Webdom circles, they will probably be the most prominent. After all, Liv Tyler is gorgeous. A whole generation of boys is going to fall in love with her. A generation of girls is going to wish they could be her. How often does a woman get the opportunity to portray a character from a best-selling-of-all-time novel? I'm not sure, but this may be a first. And Tyler's role may not be all that big in the movies. The whole point of the saga, after all, is to get the Ring to Mordor so it can be destroyed. Hopefully, Arwen won't be leading the left wing of Aragorn's army. Still, it seems only prudent to me to encourage people to be careful in their research. If you're going to put up an Aragorn and Arwen page (and who's to say now isn't the time to do it?), keep in mind that it's a Good Thing to divulge your source material. Tolkien purists would tell you to stay away from the Middle-Earth Role-Playing game source books (all of which have disclaimers advising you to rely on Tolkien's books). I'm telling you now to stay away from the other Web sites. Sure, there are some out there which have their facts right, but how many people know Thengel was a king of Rohan, the father of Theoden? That many? Okay, things aren't so bad just yet. But just to be on the safe side, here are a few of the basic facts about Aragorn. See how many of them you know. And I'll make this hard for you: I won't name my sources, except to say they are all Tolkien books and none of them are Web sites. Aragorn was born on March 1, 2931 of the Third Age. That would have been 1331 of Shire Reckoning. Tolkien stated in one place that he lived 190 years and in another place that Aragorn lived 210 years. The 210-year lifespan is the later and generally more accepted version. So Aragorn died in 120 of the Fourth Age, or the year 1541 in the Shire Reckoning. His proper name at birth was Aragorn son of Arathorn II. Arathorn was killed two years later and young Aragorn then became Aragorn II, Chieftain of the Dunedain of the North -- not Chieftain of the Dunedain of Arnor. Arnor

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