[Tancred]

Well, naturally Earendil and his wife were Half-Elven. Earendil was the one who came to Valinor and made the Valar decide to make the Half-Elves choose which race to belong to in the first place! [img]smile.gif[/img]

As for 'blood'... I think I've ended up using the wrong terms. Blood's blood, there's nothing special about it. It would be more correct, perhaps, to say that Aragorn may have a trace of Elvish blood in his body, but that does not make him special. Elros surrendered everything that made him an Elf when he made his choice to become mortal. He was barred from Valinor and lost his total connection to the physical world, but in return was able to sleep and dream, and when he died he was able to go... wherever Men go. (In Middle-Earth, choosing between Elf and Man is a tough one, really it is.) It's the divine ancestry of the Numenoreans and their descendants that sets them apart, not their Elvish roots. Sorry about the confusion there.

And yep, you're right! Melian was Luthien's mother. [img]smile.gif[/img] My Silmarillion is rusty.