Hello to everyone who is still reading this.
Before we go on, we would like to give our eternal thanks to everyone who reviewed. This is not actually another a chapter but it is **VERY IMPORTANT**. Now, if you've already read the appendices in the back of the Lord of the Rings, you will probably already know what we are talking about, so you are dismissed. Go read the next chapter, shoo. For those of you still here, pay attention. We are turning this over to Eirual, and she will be giving a quiz at the end.
~ Eirual steps up to the mic and clears her throat~
Ok. For anyone who hasn't read the rest of the "Tale of Aragorn and Arwen" please pay attention. It has a *very* sad ending. Aragorn get married and are very happy together. All of Arwen's family leave for the Undying Lands, but that really doesn't seem to bother her very much, because she's with the love of her life. Now please remember that Aragorn and Arwen met and fell in love when he was forty nine. By the time the Quest of the Ring comes about, he's sixty one. They've been betrothed for about twelve years before they could finally get married. It may not have been a huge deal to the elf but it still must have been pretty bad. Elrond was very against Arwen binding herself to a mortal because he knew if she did, she would lose every thing before the end. That is eventually what happened. Aragorn lived to the ripe old age of 180 and then he *chose to die*.He had to die when he did so that Gondor did not weaken itself with a failing king. At this point Arwen left the White City. She returned to Lorien, where she wandered lost and forgotten until she died of a broken heart, forgotten by all of Middle Earth. She lies under the hill of Cerin Amroth, where she and Aragorn had first met. The flowers elanor and niphredil (golden star and silver star respectively) are dedicated to these lovers as they bloomed the thickest on the hill where they first met. After Arwen's death, they bloomed no more in Middle Earth, thus passed the last memories of the Lady Undomiel.
*Loud sniffs as Eirual blows her nose and attempts to save her running mascara*
There you go, hopefully this will explain much of the upcoming angst that is present in the story. Enjoy the show.
The Nightrunners