 malickfan Gondor Oct 17 2012, 12:53pm Views: 2792 |
‘the hour is indeed hard, yet it was made even in that day when we met under the white birches in the garden of Elrond where none now walk’ ‘and She went out from the city of Minas Tirith and passed away to the land of Lórien and dwelt there alone…’ ‘..she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave…’ In the appendices it confirms that Arwen went to dwell alone in Lothlorien following Aragorn's death, both it and rivendell were suposedly deserted, the closest elves being in northern Greenwood, yet it states her 'grave' is upon Cerin Amroth. To me 'grave' suggests she was buried, digging a grave would probabaly be a several person job, and as Arwen was not mortal and close to death it seems Unlikely she would be able to dig it by herself. On the other hand almost all the elves were now gone and no mention is made of any of her kin being around (both Celeborn and her brothers were around for at least some of the fourth age). A friend of mine suggested that 'laying herself to rest' was a way of saying the ground swallowed her up forming a grave of its own accord, even if this is true, and she did bury herself, how would the 'author' of the appendices know where her grave was? If they did know where she was going to die why didn't they go with her? I may have just misread the text, but this has always left me a bit confused.  ‘As they came to the gates Cirdan the Shipwright came forth to greet them. Very tall he was, and his beard was long, and we was grey and old, save that his eyes were keen as stars; and he looked at them and bowed, and said ‘All is now ready.’ Perhaps the most fascinating Individual in Middle Earth |
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