Edith tolkien luthien7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tolkien's legend of Beren and Luthien took several forms from 1917 to 1954, five of them distinct:ġ) the early fairy-tale or beast fable called "The Tale of Tinuviel" Ģ) the verse "Lay of Leithian" (preceeded by prose synopses) ģ) the prose romance in The Silmarillion (preceeded by versions later edited and published by Christopher Tolkien in the Earliest Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, Earliest Annals of Beleriand, Later Annals of Beleriand, and Grey Annals) Ĥ) the retrospective love song Aragorn sings about the two lovers in Book I, Chapter 11 of The Fellowship of the Rings (preceeded by the poem "Light as Leaf on Linden Tree" and a medial version with a prose paraphrase) ĥ) and the record of the love story of Aragorn and Arwen itself, included in an appendix to The Return of the King, which is a re-telling in a later time of a story quite similar to that of Beren and Luthien, one which makes direct reference to it. ![]()
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