Legolas, you're just so darn...CUTE!: Re: Evenstar

» Michael_Martinez - Re: Evenstar

In response to message posted by Tanlaithwen:

Elrond's mother was Elwing, the daughter of Dior, the son of Luthien. "Tinuviel" is Sindarin for "daughter of twilight", and is a poetic name for the nightingale. When Luthien's mother, Melian of the Maiar, settled in Middle-earth, she was accompanied by nightingales.

Beren gave Luthien the nickname "Tinuviel" after he beheld her dancing in the forest as her friend Daeron played a song for her on his flute.

It is highly improbable that Arwen was the last-born of the Elves. The story of Imrazor the Numenorean and his Elven-wife Mithrellas (the forebears of the Lords of Dol Amroth), and the fact that Arwen herself bore at least three children, shows that Elves were perfectly capable of having children in the Third Age.

Tolkien never intended that his stories should represent a full accounting of who begat whom. He was only accounting for the most important families in the pseudo-history.

-- posted by Michael_Martinez