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   On 12/31/2011 1:58 AM, Paul Ciszek wrote:   
      
   > I may have asked this before. Is Arwen the youngest elf in Middle   
   > Earth?   
      
   Probably not:   
      
   "But as for Arwen the Fair, Lady of Imladris and of Lórien,   
   Evenstar of her people, she is of lineage greater than yours,   
   and she has lived in the world already so long that to her you are   
   but as a yearling shoot beside a young birch of many summers."   
      
    > I was thinking:  According to Tolkien, Elves have their   
   > children comparatively early in life.   
      
   Cite?   
      
   > If Arwen was accutely aware   
   > that no elves had been born after her, and her biological clock   
   > alarm clock was going off, that might have been one factor that   
   > made marriage to a mortal more attractive.   
      
   As wicked fools she had scorned them, but Aragorn was handsome enough   
   to make the Queen of the Angles sigh. It was obviously a case of   
   "Hello, I love you, won't you tell me your name?"   
      
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