Elrond went overboard to keep his daughter marrying Aragorn because she’d lose her immortality? But then there’s shots of her future looking at Aragorn’s tomb? What?

Elrond went overboard to keep his daughter marrying Aragorn because she’d lose her immortality? But then there’s shots of her future looking at Aragorn’s tomb? What?

In the movies I think elrond alludes that she would linger on in misery after Aragorn's death, it's also alluded that if Sauron is victorious and Aragorn dies that she will die with him. That's why Elrond wanted Aragorn to break it off from Aragorn and why he wanted her to go with him to valinor because if she stayed in Middle Earth she would die no matter what. In the book Aragorn rules for 121 years and when he dies a year later Arwen dies of a broken heart, she returns to lothlorien where she used to live and finds all the elves have gone to the west and she lies down where she first meets Aragorn and dies. So I think it counts as immortality as she almost chooses to die.
The movies different than the book, Arwen barely appears in the book while Jackson wanted her to have a bigger role. They shot a huge amount of material. For instance in the two towers in reshow and redited footage it's Arwen not Haldir who arrives leading the elves at Helms Deep to save the Rohirm. You can see a glimpse of the footage when the urukhai finally break through the gate, from above you can just make out a red clothed figure retreating and that's Arwen. Hopefully they will release this footage for a new extended extended edition to mark the 30 year anniversary.




She did die as her immortality was lost for chosing a "mortal life" (when an elf bonds with a mortal)
The images are visions that Elrond showed her to try and dissuade her from choosing that path.
so she still outlives him but she does die (immortal to veeeeeeeeeeeryyy long living basically, same as aragorn but still much longer). I believe she ends up wandering about until her life force drains enough, and she dies underneath some certain trees.
not being a ranger no. he is a descendant from a subspecies of humans with longer life spans. hence why he's like 70-80 (can't remember which) in the movies
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She died after him. She chose mortality. Since her dad was half-elven, she and her brothers were permitted to choose, just like her dad and uncle Elros could.
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