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...

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...

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...

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...

and Lúthien, daughter of the Elf Thingol, king of the Sindar, and Melian, a Maia. Beren died in the quest for the Silmaril, and in despair, Lúthien's spirit...

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...

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...

published in parts as The Silmarillion, The Children of Húrin, Beren and Lúthien, and The Fall of Gondolin. Melkor is the most powerful of the Valar but...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Minas Tirith (not the later city in Gondor) on the isle of Tol Sirion. Lúthien came to this fallen stronghold to save her lover, the imprisoned Beren...

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...

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...

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...

Númenor. Since Elros was half-elven, from the marriage of Beren to the elf Lúthien, he and his descendants enjoyed much longer life than other men. In Isildur's...

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,...

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...

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...

Valinor. In contrast to the first union of Elves and Men, that between Lúthien and Beren, Tuor and Idril are allowed to marry without difficulty. Their...

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...

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...

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...