Sayings by Arwen

Sayings by Arwen

Arwen

Arwen's  mortality  (from The Lord of the Rings)

"And Arwen became as a mortal woman, and yet it was not her lot to die until all that she had gained was lost...As Queen of Elves and Men she dwelt with Aragorn for six-score years in great glory and bliss; yet at last he felt the approach of old age and knew that the span of his life-days was drawing to an end... Arwen knew well what he intended, and long had foreseen it; nonetheless she was overborne by her grief. 'Would you then, lord, before your time leave your people that live by your word?' she said."

Arwen, “The Lord of the Rings”

"Then going to the House of the Kings in the Silent Street, Aragorn laid him down on the long bed that had been prepared for him ... and then all left him save Arwen, and she stood alone by his bed. And for all her wisdom and lineage she could not forbear to plead with him to stay yet for a while. She was not yet weary of her days, and thus she tasted the bitterness of the mortality that she had taken upon her."

[and Aragorn said] "'I speak no comfort to you, for there is no comfort for such pain within the circles of the world. The uttermost choice is before you: to repent and go to the Havens and bear away into the West the memory of our days together that shall there be evergreen but never more than memory; or else to abide the Doom of Men.' 
"'Nay, dear lord,' she said, 'that choice is long over. There is now no ship that would bear me hence, and I must indeed abide the Doom of Men, whether I will or I nill: the loss and the silence.'"

"'Estel, Estel!' she cried, and with that even as he took her hand and kissed it, he fell into sleep... Arwen went forth from the House, and the light of her eyes was quenched, and it seemed to her people that she had become cold and grey as nightfall in winter that comes without a star. Then she said farewell to Eldarion, and to her daughters, and to all whom she had loved; and she went out from the city of Minas Tirith and passed away to the land of Lórien, and dwelt there alone under the fading trees until winter came."

"There at last when the mallorn-leaves were falling, but spring had not yet come, she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after, and elanor and niphredil bloom no more east of the Sea."

Arwen, “The Lord of the Rings” ( the Return of the king)

Sources:

"The Lord of the Rings", J.R.R Tolkien (the Return of the King)

The Lord of the Rings, Shadow of Twilight