Númenorean Hobbit Lass at your service

I think aro Elros is interesting mostly because he seems to be the one character who chooses mortality who doesn't explicitly do it for love. I like the idea that he makes his choice for himself, not for a partner. "But he has a wife" okay they can be besties who have kids together.

Also thought of this exchange:

Elrond: You know you didn't have to get married right?

Elros: Yeah we did it for tax purposes.

Elrond: ...You created Númenor's tax policy.

Elros: Yeah?

Elrond: You don't have to incentivize marriage.

Elros: I DON'T!?

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One would think that after a reconciliation and betrothal, Aldarion, King’s Heir as he was, would have given his thoughts to his impending nuptials (Tolkien tells us it customarily followed the betrothal in about three years). Aldarion had remained on land long enough that his venturers started to grow discontent. The sea-longing descended on him in the third year of their betrothal when Aldarion was visiting Erendis’ parents’ house. 

Everyone expected him and Erendis to talk about wedding dates, yet they did not. Aldarion was at war with himself, torn between Erendis and the sea. Erendis, for her part, had a mother who– it must be remarked-- consistently gave her bad advice. Núneth, noticing their coldness, openly advised her daughter not to confront Aldarion, for “words may open wounds.” 

This, the first time Erendis correctly noticed Aldarion’s sea-longing returning, would have been a great opportunity for them to talk about it– yet they lost it. Aldarion was too proud and took no advice, even later when his father asked him about setting a date for the wedding. 

Later, when he talked to Erendis and confessed the desire to set sail again, he further misread the situation (we can see by now that this was a pattern for Aldarion; he was very much not a people person) and offered for her to sail with him. This was yet another opportunity for them to understand each other and how different they were; Erendis also openly talked about how she did not wish to compete with the Sea. But they clearly loved each other, and so he endured one more year before he set sail with three ships, and Erendis herself set the oiolairë bough on his ship’s prow in a clear sign of reconciliation and hope.

We shall see how that played out next week… for it took six years and some for him to return.