13 Facts About Half-elf

1.

Half-elf is a mythological or fictional being, the offspring of an immortal elf and a mortal human.

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2.

Half-elf told him he had freed her from a curse and asked to leave.

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3.

Half-elf told him they would have a child, and asked him to visit the child the next winter at the harbour.

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4.

Half-elf told him that the child's name was Skuld, which means "what you should do".

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5.

Half-elf said that the King would gain the reward for breaking the curse, but that the King's people would suffer as the King had not done as she had asked.

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6.

Half-elf was killed while still young, when the sons of Feanor sacked Doriath.

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7.

Half-elf married the Elf Celebrian, daughter of Celeborn and Galadriel, and sailed into the West at the conclusion of the War of the Ring.

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8.

Half-elf ruled for 120 years, choosing to die at a great age for a man, but while still in full health.

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9.

Half-elf died alone at the age of 2,901 years, grieving the brevity of her mortal happiness.

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10.

The earliest version of the tale of Turin Turambar had Tamar, the character Tolkien later renamed Brandir, as a Half-elf; Tolkien mentioned this in a way that implied he did not consider Half-elven descent especially remarkable at the time he wrote that story.

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11.

Half-elf writes that "Aragorn is a hero and a descendant of heroes, but he is brought up in hiding and given the name of Hope [Estel]; Arwen possesses the beauty of Luthien, but she is born in the twilight of her people and her title is Evenstar; these two restore the original glories only for a little while, before the world is altered and 'fades into the light of common day'".

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12.

Half-elf went on to the singular assertion that 'the Human-stories of the elves are doubtless full of the Escape from Deathlessness'.

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13.

Half-elf left Qualinesti, a land of elves, because their leader's daughter Laurana was in love with him and her father was having none of it.

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