Unfortunately, Thingol underestimates the depths of Beren and Lúthien's love, their stubbornness and how far they are willing to go for each other. So, he challenges Beren to bring a Silmaril from Morgoth's crown, expecting him to give up or try and get killed. Beren and Lúthien fall in love, but her father King Thingol is not willing to allow anybody to marry his daughter.

Morgoth sends Sauron at the helm of an army of Orcs, wolves and werewolves to conquer the country, and eventually all Dorthonion's outlaws are killed…except by Barahir's son, Beren, who is forced to flee towards the South.Īfter a harrowing journey through cursed lands, Beren enters the Elven Kingdom of Doriath, and meets princess Lúthien in the woods. However, his army is held from invading Nargothrond by Barahir, leader of the House of Beor, a tribe of Men who rule over Dorthonion and serve King Finrod Felagund. Morgoth has broken the Siege of Angband, and his forces are spreading across the North of Beleriand, attacking both Elves and their Men allies. The story was posthumously published by his son Christopher Tolkien who, lacking a finished and updated version, opted for presenting the different versions in chronological order, interspersing Cantos of the Lay of Leithian with prose fragments of The Silmarillion to patch up a continuous narrative. Tolkien began working in the story in 1917, writing many versions of the tale, both in prose and poetry, throughout his life, but never finishing any of them (except for the original The Tale of Tinúviel, which does not fit with the wider, more elaborate mythos due to being such an early work). Tolkien, one of the three 'Great Tales' of the First Age (the other two being The Children of Húrin and The Fall of Gondolin), and one of the main tales of the Tolkien's Legendarium. Beren and Lúthien is a Dark Fantasy/Romance tale by J.

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