January 6, 2003 Aragorn's Choice Fluidshaggy, I'm afraid I think you've been a little hard on Aragorn in his choice to pass on. This was a tradition that dated back from Elros, the first King of Numemor [see article on Elrond's age] but also in the Appendix you sited it states that at the time of his death Aragorn feel the onset of dotage nearing, and in his talk with Arwen he says that if he does not yield up his extra-long life 'I must soon go perforce' and he asks her if she would have him linger until he was 'unmanned and witless' as was the case of several of the later Numenorean kings. So the question here is whether he was kinder to spare her the sight of his slow fall into senility or deaprt when the memory of love and joy still lingered.
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