"Arwen and Aragorn are first cousins*"

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BewmHedshot
09/06/2025
07:52 PM
#1
That asterisk is doing a lotta work
Verdekal
09/06/2025
07:53 PM
#2
Like 30 generations removed.
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monkmith
09/06/2025
07:55 PM
#3
seeing that numenorians averaged like 200 years old you're talking about being something like 30 to 50 times removed first cousins.
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Southernfatman
09/06/2025
08:45 PM
#4
Well, could be worse... The Silmarillion spoilers............ Turin/Nienor
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suchiuomizu
09/06/2025
08:48 PM
#5
Yeah, it gets annoying when people occasionally bring this up, treating it as weird while ignoring that whole 30ish generations thing.
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lilhurk1985187
09/06/2025
08:49 PM
#6
monkmith posted...
seeing that numenorians averaged like 200 years old you're talking about being something like 30 to 50 times removed first cousins.
Incest is incest. This applies to everybody regardless of how much time goes by.
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suchiuomizu
09/06/2025
08:52 PM
#7
lilhurk1985187 posted...
Incest is incest. This applies to everybody regardless of how much time goes by.

This is the sort of logic where if you complain about something distant, you might as well treat everything as incest.
WTF DUH I DUH
divot1338
09/06/2025
08:57 PM
#8
BewmHedshot posted...
That asterisk is doing a lotta work
Thats not an asterix. That means butthole.
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Evolician
09/06/2025
09:00 PM
#9
If I was Aragorn I woulda gone with Eowyn know what Im sayin?

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bfslick50
09/06/2025
09:19 PM
#10
lilhurk1985187 posted...
Incest is incest. This applies to everybody regardless of how much time goes by.

So we all have 2 biological parents and if there's no incest 4 grandparents and 8 great grandparents and so on. Going back 30 generations is 2^30 = 1,073,741,824. So if you and your mate both aren't committing incest and don't have incest in your past then 30 generations ago not only do you both need 1 trillion distinct relatives but those 2 lists can't have any overlap... and there aren't that many people... not now, not then... probably not in the history of humanity have we reached a sum of 2 trillion people yet.

You just can't count it as incest going back 30 generations unless all relationships are incest.
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Southernfatman
09/06/2025
09:26 PM
#11
As others have said, there's so many generations in between them.

Now Maeglin though...
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Red_XIV
09/06/2025
09:27 PM
#12
lilhurk1985187 posted...
Incest is incest. This applies to everybody regardless of how much time goes by.
By that logic, every relationship is incest, because all humans have common ancestry.
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Dissident_77
09/06/2025
09:30 PM
#13
lilhurk1985187 posted...
Incest is incest. This applies to everybody regardless of how much time goes by.
I seriously hope you are joking or trolling. If not... lmao
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Metal_Gear_Raxis
09/06/2025
09:34 PM
#14
It's a funny lore thing to drop in somebody not in the know to see how they react, but no it's not serious incest.
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monkmith
09/06/2025
09:38 PM
#15
Southernfatman posted...
Well, could be worse... The Silmarillion spoilers............ Turin/Nienor
yeah, everybody hates that asshole dragon glaurung.
Taarsidath-an halsaam.
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