Edited by Christopher Tolkien
Beren and Luthien Edited by Christopher Tolkien
Harper Collins, 2017.
First edition. Signed by the illustrator Alan Lee on the title page. Publisher's black cloth, lettered in rose gilt, in the pictorial dustwrapper. Illustrated by Alan Lee. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper.
One of the few love stories from Tolkien's legendarium. It is one of three stories in the Silmarillion that Tolkien thought deserved their own long-form narratives.
Tolkien and his wife Edith share a tombstone in Oxford, 'Luthien' is engraved under her name, and 'Beren' under his.
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