The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen

Got to put the map in there.

And he never wanted to cut the tale of Aragorn and Arwen.

And I think that's really important as you're talking about the kind of form seem to matter a lot to him, Austin, because that's the only one that's written as a story.

Right.

Maybe we have to get there, I guess.

We

have to talk a little bit about, at the very least, we're going to have to talk about the tale of Aragorn and Arwen.

Yeah, I mean, we can probably summarize the other stuff very quickly, or not summarize it so much as say, if you're interested in learning about the previous kings and the line of Isildur and Inarion, you should read these six pages or whatever, or ten pages, you

When Tolkien wrote these lines, it didn't exist yet.

The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen is retconned by Tolkien.

Excellent retcon and perfectly relevant.

But we would make a mistake in thinking that the retcon explains the text.