Pull up a cozy chair and join us as we chat about the works and faith of J.R.R. You can read more about this upcoming publication here.You’re listening to Tea with Tolkien, a podcast for the Hobbit at Heart. Our friends at the Tolkien Society note that ‘ Beren and Lúthien will be published 100 years since Tolkien’s wife Edith danced for him in a small woodland glade filled with hemlocks in East Yorkshire, an event he later acknowledged was the inspiration for the meeting of the immortal Lúthien Tinúviel and the mortal Beren in the glades beside Esgalduin.’ The edition will be published in Europe by Harper Collins. Published on the tenth anniversary of the last Middle-earth book, the New York Times bestseller The Children of Húrin, this new volume will similarly include drawings and color plates by Alan Lee, who also illustrated The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit and went on to win Academy Awards for his work on The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.’ Presented together for the first time, they reveal aspects of the story, both in event and in narrative immediacy, that were afterwards lost.’ 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.

‘In this book Christopher Tolkien has attempted to extract the story of Beren and Lúthien from the comprehensive work in which it was embedded but that story was itself changing as it developed new associations within the larger history.

This is the kernel of the legend and it leads to the supremely heroic attempt of Beren and Lúthien together to rob the greatest of all evil beings, Melkor, called Morgoth, the Black Enemy, of a Silmaril. 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 Lúthien. ‘Essential to the story, and never changed, is the fate that shadowed the love of Beren and Lúthien: for Beren was a mortal man, but Lúthien 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 Lúthien 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, edited by Christopher Tolkien and illustrated by Alan Lee, in May 2017. rights to publish BEREN AND LÚTHIEN by J.R.R. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has acquired the U.S.

‘RETURN TO MIDDLE-EARTH FOR HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT Here’s what HMH say in their official press release: Today we received official word from Tolkien publishers (in the USA) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: ten years on from the last Middle-earth related Tolkien publication, there will be a new book for fans of the Professor to enjoy!

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