Summary
An exploration of Elven conduct regarding marriage and their inherent nature.
Elven Marital Ethics
Highlights
Nature and Consent
Among the Elves, there is no historical record of a spouse being taken by force. Such an act was fundamentally contrary to their nature, and any individual subjected to such violation would have relinquished their bodily life to return to 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 wife by force; for this was wholly against their nature, and one so forced would have rejected bodily life and passed to Mandos.