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Eldy
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Aug 28 2015, 4:32am

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As someone who likes the characters of Eomer and Imrahil... [In reply to] Can't Post

...I would certainly want to believe that their family lives were happy and that Eomer and Lothiriel didn't end up in a loveless marriage that neither wanted but they did for political reasons. I don't think we can assume that the political aspect played no role in it whatsoever, though, or completely rule out it being arranged. Though of course, arranged doesn't have to mean loveless.



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Belegorn
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Aug 28 2015, 8:25pm

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Perhaps merely the mid-20s [In reply to] Can't Post

Aragorn was said to come to manhood early at 20 when Elrond gave him his heirlooms [The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen]. Although, it was a habit among the Dúnedain to marry late. Denethor did not get married until he was 46, "the high men of the south married late, and their children were few" [Gondor and the Heirs of Anárion] although this was common even in Númenor. In Middle-earth this, however, was a sign of decline. Arvedui married when he was 76 and his wife was 44. It's kind of interesting that Denethor and Arvedui married women much younger than themselves when apparently Dúnedain women outlived their male counterparts [The Line of Elros: Kings of Númenor]. Even the Dúnadan woman Morwen married Thengel when she was in her early twenties. I'm not quite sure what Tolkien meant by "the age at which the women of the Dúnedain were accustomed to marry" but the examples we have in the late 3rd Age are in their early twenties, and also they all seem to marry much older men, save Aragorn with Arwen who was much older than him. Boromir was already in his 40s and he still had not taken a wife.


(This post was edited by Belegorn on Aug 28 2015, 8:29pm)

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