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Beren and Lâuthien

Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973, author, Tolkien, Christopher, editor, Lee, Alan, illustrator, Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. Silmarillion

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The tale of Beren and Lâuthien was part of The Silmarillion, the myths and legends of the First Age of Middle Earth. Essential to the story is the fate that shadowed the love of Beren and Lâuthien: for Beren was a mortal man, but Lâuthien 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 Lâuthien. This leads to the heroic attempt of Beren and Lâuthien together to rob the greatest of all evil beings, Melkor, called Morgoth, the Black Enemy, of a Silmaril. In this book, J.R.R.'s son Christopher Tolkien has attempted to extract the story of Beren and Lâuthien 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.

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Subject: Middle Earth (Imaginary place) Fiction. / Elves Fiction. / Quests (Expeditions) Fiction. / Good and evil Fiction. / FICTION / Fantasy / Epic. / Elves. / Good and evil. / Middle Earth (Imaginary place) / Quests (Expeditions) / Epic fiction.
• ISBN: 9781328791825, 1328791823

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PR6039.O32 B47 2017	1	BOOK	GENERAL