Editing Arwen (section)

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Through her father, Elrond, Arwen was the granddaughter of [[Eärendil]] the Mariner (the second of the [[Half-elf|Half-elven]]), great-granddaughter of [[Tuor]] of [[Gondolin]], and therefore a direct descendant of the ancient House of Hador. Through her great-grandmother, [[Idril Celebrindal|Idril]], Arwen was a descendant of King Turgon of the [[Noldor]]. Through her mother, she was the granddaughter of the Elf-queen [[Galadriel]] of [[Lothlórien]].<ref group=T>{{harvnb|Tolkien|1977}} "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age": Family Trees I and II: "The house of Finwë and the Noldorin descent of Elrond and Elros", and "The descendants of Olwë and Elwë"</ref> Through both of her parents, Arwen was a direct descendant of the ancient Elven House of [[Finwë and Míriel|Finwë]]. Furthermore, Arwen was a descendant of [[Beren]] and [[Lúthien]], whose [[The Tale of Beren and Lúthien|story]] resembled hers. Indeed, Arwen was held to be the reappearance in likeness of Lúthien, fairest of all the [[Elves (Middle-earth)|Elves]], who was called Nightingale (''Tinúviel'').<ref name="Tale" group=T/>

Arwen was a distant relative of her husband Aragorn.<ref name="Tale" group=T/> Aragorn's ancestor, Elros Tar-Minyatur, the first King of [[Númenor]], was her father Elrond's brother, who chose to live as a [[Man (Middle-earth)|Man]] rather than as one of the Eldar. Arwen became Queen of the Reunited Kingdom of Arnor and Gondor when she married Aragorn, who was of the line of the Kings of Arnor. By their marriage, the lines of the Half-elven were reunited. Their union served, too, to unite and preserve the bloodlines of the three kings of the high Elves (Ingwë, Finwë, and the brothers Olwë and [[Elwë]]) as well as the only line with [[Maia (Middle-earth)|Maiarin]] blood through Arwen's great-great-great grandmother, [[Melian (Middle-earth)|Melian]], Queen of [[Doriath (Middle-earth)|Doriath]].<ref group=T name="Temp RotK"/>

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