• Lúthien and Beren are characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world Middle-earth. Lúthien is an elf, daughter of the elf-king Thingol and goddess-like...
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  • 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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  • names were reintroduced into the 2017 book Beren and Lúthien, an extended story about the tale of Lúthien and Beren. Tolkien defined Melian as a fay in earlier...
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  • 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 called...
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    She served as the inspiration for his fictional Middle-earth characters Lúthien Tinúviel and Arwen Undómiel. Edith Bratt was born in Gloucester on 21 January...
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  • choose either Elvish immortality or the mortal life of Men. The elf-maidens Lúthien and Arwen in Tolkien's works both chose mortality to be with the Men that...
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  • Fellowship of the Ring and a major character in The Lord of the Rings. Lúthien and Beren: The ancestors of the Half-elven bloodline. Maedhros: Noldorin...
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    light of the 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...
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    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 Elves...
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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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  • are designed to fit together when played in sequence. The ninth song "Lúthien Tinúviel" was added in an appendix rather than in the main sequence. Swann...
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    Greece, a descent into the underworld, as when Lúthien and Beren descend into Angband, or when Lúthien goes to the Halls of Mandos to plead with him to...
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  • Tales" from the First Age of Middle-earth; the other two are Beren and Lúthien and The Children of Húrin. All three stories are briefly summarised in...
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  • Fëanor. The cover art for the album features Lúthien dancing before Morgoth, from The Tale of Beren and Lúthien. The album has drawn universally positive...
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  • published in parts as The Silmarillion, The Children of Húrin, Beren and Lúthien, and The Fall of Gondolin. The character is also mentioned in the Lord...
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    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 from playing...
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  • set out, and Lúthien joined him, though he tried to dissuade her. Sauron, a powerful servant of Melkor, imprisoned Beren, but with Lúthien's help, he escaped...
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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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  • beginning of Tolkien's Middle-earth mythology. Elwing is the granddaughter of Lúthien and Beren, and is descended from Melian the Maia, while Earendil is the...
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  • was still striking, he wrote, how Beren is here an Elf, not a Man; and Lúthien rescues him not from Sauron but from Tevildo, Prince of Cats. Noad finds...
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  • Morgoth. One of the Silmarils is recovered by Beren and Lúthien through great peril and loss, when Lúthien sends Morgoth to sleep with her singing and Beren...
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  • came to marry a man, as told in the main story, which Arwen's ancestor Lúthien had done in the First Age, giving up her immortality. Provides a timeline...
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  • Húrin is a synthesis of these and other sources. It, along with Beren and Lúthien, published in 2017, and The Fall of Gondolin, published in 2018, constituted...
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  • Minas Tirith (not the later city in Gondor) on the isle of Tol Sirion. Lúthien came there to save her lover, the imprisoned Beren, with Huan the Wolfhound...
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    brief "Sketch of the Mythology", which included the tales of Beren and Lúthien and of Túrin; and that sketch eventually evolved into the Quenta Silmarillion...
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  • Tolkien The History of Middle-earth The Children of Húrin The History of The Hobbit Beren and Lúthien The Fall of Gondolin The Nature of Middle-earth...
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  • 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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    edition of The Hobbit, the 2007 The Children of Húrin, the 2017 Beren and Lúthien, the 2018 The Fall of Gondolin, and the 2022 The Fall of Númenor. He has...
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  • writes that Aragorn, narrating the Lay of Beren and Lúthien to the hobbits, tells them that Lúthien's line "shall never fail". Rutledge talks of the "kings...
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  • mariner Eärendil and Elwing his wife, and a great-grandson of Beren and Lúthien. Not long afterwards, the havens were destroyed by the sons of Fëanor,...
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