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The story of Beren and Lúthien was, or turned, a vital aspect within the evolution of The Silmarillion, the myths and legends of the First Age of the World conceived by M.J.S. Tolkien. Returning from France and the battle of the Somme on the finish of 1916, he wrote the story within the following yr.
Essential to the story, and by no means modified, is the destiny that shadowed the love of Beren and Lúthien: for Beren was a mortal man, however Lúthien was an immortal elf. Her father, an amazing elvish lord, in deep opposition to Beren, imposed on him an unattainable activity that he should carry out earlier than he may wed Lúthien. This is the kernel of the legend; and it results in the supremely heroic try of Beren and Lúthien collectively to rob the best of all evil beings, Melkor, referred to as Morgoth, the Black Enemy, of a Silmaril.
In this guide Christopher Tolkien has tried to extract the story of Beren and Lúthien from the great work through which it was embedded; however that story was itself altering because it developed new associations inside the bigger historical past. To present one thing of the method whereby this legend of Middle-earth advanced through the years, he has advised the story in his father’s personal phrases by giving, first, its unique type, after which passages in prose and verse from later texts that illustrate the narrative because it modified. Presented collectively for the primary time, they reveal features of the story, each in occasion and in narrative immediacy, that have been afterwards misplaced.
Published on the tenth anniversary of the final Middle-earth ebook, the worldwide bestseller The Children of Húrin, this new quantity will equally embrace drawings and colour plates by Alan Lee, who additionally illustrated The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit and went on to win Academy Awards for his work on The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy.
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