Summary
An exploration of Elven morality regarding marriage and personal consent.
Elven Marital Customs and Nature
Highlights
Prohibitions Against Coercion
Among the Elves, the act of taking another's spouse by force was entirely unknown and contrary to their inherent nature. Any individual subjected to such violence would reject their physical existence and depart for the halls of Mandos.
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Original text
But among all these evils there is no record of any among the Elves that took another’s spouse by force; for this was wholly against their nature, and a spouse so forced would have rejected bodily life and passed to Mandos.