![]() Of the three, Tolkien explained, Beren and Lúthien most foreshadowed The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien wrote them in 19, beginning with The Children of Húrin, following it with the Fall of Gondolin, and completing the main three with Beren and Lúthien. Along with The Children of Húrin and The Fall of Gondolin, Beren and Lúthien formed the three greatest tales of the First Age, each, in some way, deeply tied to the saga of the three silmarils. “The chief of the stories of The Silmarillion, and the one most fully treated is the Story of Beren and Lúthien the Elfmaiden,” Tolkien wrote Milton Waldman of Collins Publishers in 1951. ![]() It matters profoundly in “The Lord of the Rings” and indeed also mattered profoundly in Tolkien’s own life. ![]() Tolkien’s story of Beren and Lúthien remains one of the most beautiful parts of Tolkien’s entire mythology. ![]()
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