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tags=["Genre Fiction","Literary Fiction","Sagas","Fantasy","Epic"]
title=Beren and Lúthien
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authors=Christopher Tolkien, J. R. R. Tolkien
narrators=Timothy West, Samuel West
publishedYear=2020
publisher=HarperCollins
isbn=
asin=0008214239
language=English
genres=Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy
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explicit=N
abridged=N

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Presented for the first time on audio, the epic tale of Beren and Lúthien will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves, Men and Orcs and the rich landscape unique to Tolkien’s Middle-earth in this unabridged recording read by critically acclaimed father and son, Timothy and Samuel West.  Beren was a mortal man, but Lúthien was an immortal Elf. Her father, a great Elvish lord, was deeply opposed to Beren, and imposed on him an impossible task that he must perform before he might wed Lúthien. Undaunted by Lord Thingol’s challenge, Beren and Lúthien embark on the supremely heroic attempt to rob Morgoth, the greatest of all evil beings, of a Silmaril, one of the hallowed jewels that adorn the Black Enemy’s crown. The tale of Beren and Lúthien, which was written shortly after J.R.R. Tolkien returned from the Battle of the Somme in 1916, was an essential element in the evolution of The Silmarillion.  In this book Christopher Tolkien has extracted the various versions of Beren and Lúthien from the comprehensive work in which they are embedded. To show something of the process whereby this Great Tale of Middle-earth evolved over the years, he tells 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.

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title=Forewords
[CHAPTER]
start=16.811
end=975.238
title=Preface
[CHAPTER]
start=975.238
end=1865.909
title=Notes on the Elder Days
[CHAPTER]
start=1865.909
end=3035.405
title=Chapter 1 - BEREN AND LÚTHIEN
[CHAPTER]
start=3035.405
end=9176.525
title=Chapter 2 - The Tale of Tinúviel
[CHAPTER]
start=9176.525
end=9418.477
title=Chapter 3 - A Passage from the ‘Sketch of the Mythology’
[CHAPTER]
start=9418.477
end=10162.63
title=Chapter 4 - A Passage Extracted from The Lay of Leithian
[CHAPTER]
start=10162.63
end=10286.206
title=Chapter 5 - The Quenta Noldorinwa
[CHAPTER]
start=10286.206
end=10881.705
title=Chapter 6 - A Passage Extracted from the Quenta
[CHAPTER]
start=10881.705
end=12489.687
title=Chapter 7 - A Second Extract from The Lay of Leithian
[CHAPTER]
start=12489.687
end=13487.402
title=Chapter 8 - A Further Extract from the Quenta
[CHAPTER]
start=13487.402
end=19516.509
title=Chapter 9 - The Narrative in The Lay of Leithian to Its Termination
[CHAPTER]
start=19516.509
end=21130.296
title=Chapter 10 - The Quenta Silmarillion
[CHAPTER]
start=21130.296
end=21709.634
title=Chapter 11 - The Return of Beren and Lúthien
[CHAPTER]
start=21709.634
end=22924.456
title=Chapter 12 - Extract from the Lost Tale of the Nauglafring
[CHAPTER]
start=22924.456
end=23500.682
title=Chapter 13 - The Morning and Evening Star
[CHAPTER]
start=23500.682
end=24826.01
title=Chapter 14 - Appendix: Revisions to The Lay of Leithian
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end=24888.657
title=Chapter 15 - Glossary, List of Names