Beren and Lúthien
By: by J.R.R. Tolkien ; edited by Christopher Tolkien ; with illustrations by Alan Lee
Contributors: Tolkien, Christopher, editor; Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973; Lee, Alan, illustrator
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781328791825
Subjects: Middle Earth (Imaginary place); Fiction
Description: 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. To show something of the process whereby this legend of Middle-earth evolved over the years, [Christopher Tolkien] 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.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: List of Plates
pagenum: 8; title: Preface
pagenum: 9; title: Notes on the Elder Days
pagenum: 18; title: Beren and Lúthien
pagenum: 27; title: Appendix; title: Revisions to The Lay of Leithian
pagenum: 257; title: List of Names
pagenum: 274; title: Glossary
pagenum: 286