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02816aam a2200265 a 4500 001 31E33C0E0A9B11EA8B2E862297128E48 003 SILO 005 20191119010252 008 161108s2017 nyu 000 0 eng d 020 $a 1328915336 020 $a 9781328915337 035 $a (OCoLC)962127147 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d T3D $d AZZPT $d FSP $d OCLCO $d WW9 $d TYPML $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d HQD $d OCL $d SILO 100 1 $a Tolkien, J. R. R. $q (John Ronald Reuel), $d 1892-1973 245 10 $a Beren and Luthien $c J. R. R. Tolkien ; edited by Christopher Tolkien ; with illustrations by Alan Lee 250 $a First Mariner Books ed. (pbk) 264 1 $a Boston : $b Mariner Books $c 2018 300 $a 288 pages $b illustrations (some color) $c 21 cm 520 $a Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts and presented for the first time as a 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. 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. 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 Luthien: for Beren was a mortal man, but Luthien 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 Luthien. This is the kernel of the legend; and it leads to the supremely heroic attempt of Beren and Luthien together to rob the greatest of all evil beings, Melkor, called Morgoth, the Black Enemy, of a Silmaril. In this book Christopher Tolkien has attempted to extract the story of Beren and Luthien 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 650 0 $a Middle Earth (Imaginary place) $v Fiction 655 7 $a Fantasy fiction $2 lcgft 941 $a 2 952 $l JNPC081 $d 20231227012331.0 952 $l CPPC926 $d 20231111011145.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=31E33C0E0A9B11EA8B2E862297128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search