Beren and Luthien. Edited by Christopher Tolkien with illustrations by Alan Lee.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. 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. 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. Item #27532
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