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Yes, i know the title is a bit weird, but let me explain:

In my group, two of the players have decided that their characters have fallen in love with each other, one of them is a male Beorning and the other is a female Barding.
To make matters more complicated (in a good way) they decided after a fellowship phase where they were

...on each other like rabbits...

that the female Barding were pregnant.

So far, so good.
I don´t see any problems with the whole romance and childmaking thing, but then I started to wonder does this happen a lot in ToR and Middle earth?
I can´t remember reading anywhere that a Beornings and a Bardings are a common pairing, if anything i would think Barding and Men (woman) of the Lake to be a more common pairing.
(TBH I can´t remember reading anything about any of the cultures romantic preferences...)

Have you had anything similar in any of your games, and how did it affect the characters?
Did everybody accept the pairing or maybe the relatives of the characters had other opinions that affected them?
Or maybe someone have any good ideas as to what might happen?

I would say rare uncommon pairings of two people in love against the prejudices of their people is one of the favourite themes of Tolkien.

I would say rare uncommon pairings of two people in love against the prejudices of their people is one of the favourite themes of Tolkien.

Well, when you put it like that.... It actually sounds better and make more sense when I read what you wrote.
It looks like I´m making it more complicated than necessary about the possible events that their romance (and parenthood) will bring.

Oh well, it looks like the female Barding will see how thrilled her old suitor from Laketown will be when he learns about it... And her parents

farinal wrote:I would say rare uncommon pairings of two people in love against the prejudices of their people is one of the favourite themes of Tolkien.

I second this: Lúthien and Beren, Eärendil and Elwing, Arwen and Aragorn, and Éowyn and Faramir (as well as Éowyn and Aragorn, earlier on) are all good precedents here. There are examples of marriages and love within a culture (Rosie and Samwise, Merry and Pippin's largely-undescribed marriages), but most of the stories focus on the rockier relationships, as farinal says.

Well they are both of northmen stock...so it isn't such a problem.

Remember who the Dalesmen and Beornings actually are. Or rather where they came from - they are both kind of new cultures, offshoots in the case of the Beornings and rekindling of a people in the case of Dalesmen.

Food for thought.