EAN: 9780008214203

TOLKIEN J R R BEREN AND LUTHIEN DELUXE SLIPCASE...

Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts and presented for the first time as a
continuous and standalone story  the epic tale of Beren and Lúthien will reunite fans of The
Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men  Dwarves and Orcs and the rich landscape
and creatures unique to Tolkien's Middle-earth. The tale of Beren and Lúthien was  or became 
an essential element in the evolution of The Silmarillion   the myths and legends of the First
Age of the World conceived by J.R.R. Tolkien. Returning from France and the battle of the Somme
at the end of 1916  he wrote the tale in the following year. Essential to the story  and never
changed  is the fate that shadowed the love of Beren and Lúthien: for Beren was a mortal man 
but Lúthien was an immortal Elf. Her father  a great Elvish lord  in deep opposition to Beren 
imposed on him an impossible task that he must perform before he might wed Lúthien. This is the
kernel of the legend  and it leads to the supremely heroic attempt of Beren and Lúthien
together to rob the greatest of all evil beings  Melkor  called Morgoth  the Black Enemy  of a
Silmaril. In this book Christopher Tolkien has attempted to extract the story of Beren and
Lúthien from the comprehensive work in which it was embedded  but that story was itself
changing as it developed new associations within the larger history. To show something of the
process whereby this legend of Middle-earth evolved over the years  he has told the story in
his father's own words by giving  first  its original form  and then passages in prose and
verse from later texts that illustrate the narrative as it changed. Presented together for the
first time  they reveal aspects of the story  both in event and in narrative immediacy  that
were afterwards lost.

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