highwaytomordor:

Aragorn in his twentieth year met Arwen for the first time in Rivendell, where he lived under Elrond’s protection:

“At the hour of sunset Aragorn walked alone in the woods… And suddenly … he saw a maiden walking on a greensward among the white stems of the birches; and he halted amazed, thinking that he had strayed into a dream, or else that he had received the gift of the Elf-minstrels, who can make the things of which they sing appear before the eyes of those that listen."