Essential to the story, and never changed, is the fate that shadowed the love of Beren and Luthien: for Beren was a mortal man, but Luthien was an immortal Elf. Returning from France and the battle of the Somme at the end of 1916, he wrote the tale in the following year. The tale of Beren and Luthien 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. hardcover, a Fine example, in a Near Fine dustjacket with a VERY small nick on the rear panel of the jacket -as well there are some small flakes to the jacket on the front panel near the spine, very faint scaratch on rear panel, looks very nice with the jacket in a hi-quality mylar protector, 10 colour plates as well as many smaller b&w illustrations by Alan Lee, -"Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, the epic tale of Beren and Luthien 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.
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