The Great Tolkien Legendarium Thread

[quinterbeck]

My memory of the canon of Elrond and Elros is that they were half-elven and were required to choose which race they would live as - Elrond chose the elves and Elros chose men.

[alice]

My memory of the canon of Elrond and Elros is that they were half-elven and were required to choose which race they would live as - Elrond chose the elves and Elros chose men.

This is precisely correct. The same was true of Elrond's children; Arwen, of course, chose mortality.

[alice]

For those of you who enjoy such things, here's a link to a sporking of what happened when someone wrote, and got published, the "pitch-perfect" sequel to LotR. Start with the entry at the bottom and see how far you get.