^PJ is a romantic.. or he knows his audience is.
Timelord wrote:
I didn't think that Arwen was becoming mortal. In the book that is. I don't remember her being given the choice by the Valar. And when she said that she made the same choice as Luthien, I think she ment that it was to wed a mortal. She did live longer than Aragorn. I think it says she went back to where Lothlorien was.
Arwen makes the choice of Lúthien.. it's in the Appendix:
She says:
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"I will cleave to you, Dúnadan, and turn from the Twilight"
And later after the war is ended:
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"But Arwen became as a mortal woman and yet it was not her lot to die until all that she had gained was lost.
And when Aragorn is dying and asks her to leave for Valinor, she replies:
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"Nay, dear lord, that choice is long over. There is now no ship that will bear me hence, and I must indeed abide the Doom of Men, whether I will or I nill: the loss and the silence."
Tragically beautiful actually.
like the whole, "The light of the Evenstar wanes, Arwen is dying" thing. Dumb, since it isn't true. It also contradicts what Arwen said earlier in the movies; she said the Evenstar would not wax or wane, like her love. It does make her seem weak. 
