Beren and Lúthien is a 2017 compilation of multiple versions of the epic fantasy Lúthien and Beren by J. R. R. Tolkien, one of Tolkien's earliest tales...
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and in the texts collected in the 2017 book Beren and Lúthien. Their story is told to Frodo by Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings. The story of Lúthien...
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The Lays of Beleriand (redirect from The geste of beren and lúthien)
Tale of Beren and Lúthien in verse (over 4200 lines of iambic tetrameters, in rhyming couplets): The Gest of Beren son of Barahir and Lúthien the Fay...
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Melian (Middle-earth) (section Creation and conception)
legendarium. She appears in The Silmarillion, The Children of Húrin, Beren and Lúthien, and in several stories within The History of Middle-earth series. An...
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Half-elf (section Beren and Lúthien)
the tale of Beren and Lúthien, with West highlighting Aragorn's words and "pensive mood" as he tells them that Lúthien "chose mortality, and to die from...
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the Lay of Lúthien, an immortal Elf-maiden in the First Age who marries a man, Beren, thereby choosing a mortal life. As he does so, "Lúthien walked before...
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Morgoth (section Ainulindalë and Valaquenta)
and the primary antagonist of Tolkien's legendarium, the mythic epic published in parts as The Silmarillion, The Children of Húrin, Beren and Lúthien...
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Sauron (section Concept and creation)
was defeated and left as a huge vampire bat. Lúthien destroyed the tower and rescued Beren. Eärendil eventually sailed to Valinor, and the Valar moved...
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a descendant of Beren and Lúthien, whose story resembled hers. Indeed, Arwen was held to be the reappearance in likeness of Lúthien, fairest of all the...
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characters of Beren and Lúthien: in the Middle-earth legendarium, Lúthien was the most beautiful of all the Children of Ilúvatar, and forsook her immortality...
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underworld, as when Lúthien and Beren descend into Angband, or when Lúthien goes to the Halls of Mandos to plead with him to allow Beren to return to life...
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Elrond (redirect from Elladan and Elrohir)
the son of the half-elven mariner Eärendil and Elwing his wife, and a great-grandson of Beren and Lúthien. Not long afterwards, the havens were destroyed...
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Silmarils (category Middle-earth rings and jewels)
Silmarils is recovered by Beren and Lúthien through great peril and loss, when Lúthien sends Morgoth to sleep with her singing and Beren cuts it from his crown...
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Christopher Tolkien (section Early life and education)
Unfinished Tales, and The History of Middle-earth. The Children of Húrin is a synthesis of these and other sources. It, along with Beren and Lúthien, published...
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The Fall of Gondolin (redirect from The Tale of Tuor and the Exiles of Gondolin)
other two are Beren and Lúthien and The Children of Húrin. All three stories are briefly summarised in the 1977 book The Silmarillion, and all three have...
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The Children of Húrin (category Fiction about memory erasure and alteration)
in the First Age of Tolkien's Middle-earth, the other two being Beren and Lúthien and The Fall of Gondolin. The book was mostly well received by critics...
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The tale to some extent mirrors the "Tale of Beren and Lúthien", also a story of the love between a Man and an Elf, set in an earlier age of Middle-earth...
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between Beren and Orpheus, or rather between both Beren and Lúthien and the classical character, as it is Lúthien not Beren who has magical powers, and far...
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Two Trees of Valinor. Thingol and Melian have a daughter, Lúthien, who in turn falls in love with the mortal Man Beren. Disapproving of their relationship...
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Influences on Tolkien (section Welsh and Irish)
Carl Hostetter, and Tom Shippey have pointed out similarities between the tale of Beren and Lúthien in The Silmarillion and Culhwch and Olwen, a tale in...
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The Silmarillion (redirect from Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age)
accepted Beren, and the first union of Man and Elf occurred, though Beren was soon mortally wounded and Lúthien died of grief. Though the fates of Man and Elf...
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Fëanor (section Pride and downfall)
Oath of Fëanor affects the lovers Beren and Lúthien. They steal a Silmaril from Morgoth, leading to Kinslaying and years of strife among the Elves, until...
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Tolkien 1977, ch. 19 "Of Beren and Luthien" Tolkien 2021, ch. 13 "Of the Land and Beasts of Númenor" Tolkien 1937, ch. 14 "Fire and Water" Tolkien 1955, p...
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Hobbit by John D. Rateliff – contains substantial text fragments 2017 Beren and Lúthien edited by Christopher Tolkien 2018 The Fall of Gondolin edited by...
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Gimli (Middle-earth) (section Concept and creation)
Beren and Lúthien Tinúviel, found in the second volume of The Book of Lost Tales. Here, the name belongs to an aged elf, a prisoner along with Beren in...
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The Book of Lost Tales (redirect from The Tale of Turambar and the Foalókë)
Tolkien in his commentary and notes. But it was still striking, he wrote, how Beren is here an Elf, not a Man; and Lúthien rescues him not from Sauron...
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named Lúthien, said to be the fairest and most beautiful of all the Children of Ilúvatar. Some of Melian's notable descendants through Lúthien include...
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Flood and the Enuma Elish for Creation. The priest and Tolkien scholar Fleming Rutledge writes that Aragorn, narrating the Lay of Beren and Lúthien to the...
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Celtic influences on Tolkien (redirect from Tolkien and the Celtic)
Tolkien's stories and characters; thus for example the Noldorin Elves resemble the Irish Tuatha Dé Danann, while the tale of Beren and Lúthien parallels that...
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Outline of Middle-earth (category Outlines of culture and arts)
Beren and Lúthien (2017) The Fall of Gondolin (2018) The Annotated Hobbit (1988) – text of The Hobbit, with many related texts by Tolkien, edited and...
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