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ellrond:

“But the Queen Arwen said: ‘A gift I will give you. For I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him now when he departs to the Havens; for mine is the choice of

Lúthien, and as she so I have chosen, both the sweet and the bitter. But in my stead you shall go, Ring-bearer, when the time comes, and if you then desire it. If your hurts grieve you still and the memory or your burden is heavy, then you may pass into the West, until all your wounds and weariness are healed. But wear this now in memory of Elfstone and Evenstar with whom your life has been woven!’

And she took a white gem like a star that lay upon her breast hanging upon a silver chain, and she set the chain around Frodo’s neck. ‘When the memory of the fear and the darkness troubles you,’ she said, ‘this will bring you aid.”

melianinarda:

The Silmarillion aesthetic | The sisters: Undomiel & Tindomiel

Arwen Undómiel
is the daughter of Elrond.
Her epessë Undómiel means “Evenstar”, from Undómë  “evening twilight” and el “star”.

Tindómiel was the daughter of Elros Tar-Minyatur,
the twin brother of Elrond.
Her name means “Morning Star” in Quenya from tindómë “twilight of dawn” and el “star”.

nenuials:

I want to take a moment of my day for Arwen Undomiel who is honestly one of the most badass female characters I know. But the thing I specifically want to talk about is that she gets to be the QUEEN OF GONDOR

Everything below is one of my interpretations on the behaviour of Gondor people, and what I think would happen if a bit more of realism would touch Middle Earth.

An elf who rules a kingdom of men. (albeit by the side of one) I can’t even begin to imagine the life Gondorian nobles must have given her, the gossip that must have existed about her. Snotty nobles wrinkling their noses about how one of their own daughters wasn’t good enough for the King. Noooo, he had to choose an elf, not one of his own kind. Snotty nobles who never invite Arwen to their parties and who never include her in their saloons or who never even meet her if it is not a diplomatic/compulsory meeting. Don’t know what I’m talking about? Imagine movie Denethor but multiplied and a lot worse.

The feelings of the common people after a period of accommodation after the War of the Ring changing from awe and respect, and falling into the other extreme of slight fear and caution, because she’s an elf. How can one of the fair people rule over them. What? Just because elves are supposed to be smarter and more beautiful and better at everything, more than humans gives her the right to act all supposedly arrogant and snobby. Who does she think she is? And I’m not even exaggerating, this is true human behaviour. 

Arwen who at first tries her best to act as gracious as possible, charming her way through both nobles and common people alike. Who tries to show them that her experience in diplomacy and battle and many, many years make her an invaluable leader, that she is worthy of this title. But year after year it becomes harder and harder to be kind and towards the end, when Aragorn dies, she leaves Minas Tirith with no regret. Even in canon it says that she said goodbye only to her family and a few dear to her and left without telling anyone. 

She observes of course that she is not invited to most “important gatherings”, she observes than even her handmaidens seem distant at times (they change frequently) and she tells Aragorn one time. But what can he do? Force all the city to just “like” their queen? In the beginning Arwen stays never too much in the seventh circle, but in the lower ones, helping her newfound people with their tasks, making her mission to help the orphans of war, donating what elven jewelry she has. But people forget the good done to them and when she stops after some years, her praise stops as well.

She stars to blame her father. He was the one who insisted that Aragorn had to be the King of both Arnor and Gondor in order to marry her. Would it have been so wrong for him to claim just Arnor? She knew Eriador like the back of her palm, the rangers knew and respected her and the country of hobbits was so close. And even the Bree men were more friendly than this lot. (We’re talking about the same lot who not even after 200 years after the War of the Ring started worshipping Sauron again. It’s canon, read in “The new Shadow”). Eowyn and Lothiriel become her closest friends, and Faramir and Eomer. They have fought the War, they know her struggles. In the end, the life in Gondor was harder than she could have imagined.