Posted: August 19, 1999 at 16:21:27: by Olorin
It seems to me that Tolkien was a staunch believer in "hybrid vigor". Many of the greatest heroes of the first age came from cross-marriages between peoples: Fingolfin, Finarfin, Turin, Tuor, Earendil, Elros, Elrond, Finrod, Galadriel. That is not a complete list; I'm sure I left a few off. Most of them were simply mixtures of different sub-races, so I think that Tolkien thought that a mixture of the Edain and the Eldar would yeild some of the greatest people of all. I see all of the inter-marriages of the first age as culminating in the bond between Earendil and Elwing.
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