Hi everyone,
It's been a while since I visited this wiki and I have a lot to catch up.
I am sure the topic of the half elves have been discussed before. But it's a topic that fascinates me and I find a lot of gaps in the knowledge.
First, what are the half elves? The short answer is a child of an elf and a mortal man or woman.
Earendil is an example, they can also be children of half elves, e.g. Elrond and Elros.
We know that Earendil, Elwing, Elrond and Elros were given the choice to be elves or of the race of men. Elros chose to be a man while the others chose to be elves.
Now, when Earendil and Elwing made their choice, Elrond and Elros were already born, so their choice wouldn't affect Elrond and Elros, but when Elrond and Elros made their choice, they had no children. Elrond was a full elf when his children were conceived, so Elladan, Elrohir and Arwen were elves, no half-elves. The opposite is true for Elros's descendants, they all were of the race of men because Elros was a man when his children were born.
Now my first question is, what's the nature of a half-elf before making a choice? Are they inmortal? or mortal? when Dior died, did his soul go to Mandos or left Ea? They can't be both mortal and inmortal (inmortal in the elf sense). It's impossible to know because the half-elves that didn't make a choice, Dior, Elured and Elurin they all died young.
And what about Eldarion? the son of Aragorn and Arwen, he technically should be a half-elf since his mother was an elf and his father a man.
Am I missing something?