![]() ![]() It is an “essential element in the evolution” of The Silmarillion, said the publisher, and the forthcoming book is the author’s son Christopher Tolkien’s attempt “to extract the story of Beren and Lúthien from the comprehensive work in which it was embedded”. The story was written in 1917 after Tolkien returned from the Somme, where he had served as a signaller. ![]() The author’s wife, Edith, has the name Lúthien on her grave, while Tolkien himself, who died two years later in 1973, has Beren’s. And of these histories most fair still in the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien,” writes Tolkien in his major work, The Silmarillion. “Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death light that endures. ![]()
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