"A beautiful book." -San Antonio Express-News And at some earlier point, I think, first enjoyed Lewis’s MacDonald Anthology."A good introduction to LOTR fans nervous about taking on The Silmarillion, and also gives longtime fans a fascinating look at the Tolkiens' myth-making process.". And I got the reprints of all his sermons (back before everything was online). I also got a jolly reprint volume with both Princess books and At the Back of the North Wind, with (I think) original illustrations, and loved them. I think Sir Gibbie was my first ‘realistic’ MacDonald novel, but I’ve been buying them second hand when I find them (for a reasonable price), ever since – though I still have not read all I’ve bought. I wrestled with Lilith a lot more, back then – but thoroughly enjoyed rereading/audiobook-listening to it, a couple years ago.
#Beren and lúthien j.r.r. tolkien ebook series#
Yes! – I keep thinking I should reread Phantastes – I’m not sure if it was my very first, or one of my first, MacDonald books – as I also got lucky on buying the paperback reprint series of his fairy tales (illustrated by Craig Yoe) that came out in 1970s – but I certainly enjoyed it (yet don’t remember a lot of its details). Published on the tenth anniversary of the last Middle-earth book, the international 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. Returning from France and the battle of the Somme at the end of 1916, he wrote the tale in the following year.Įssential 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. 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. The leaves were long, the grass was green,
You can see my write-ups about Beren and Lúthien here.Īnd though it is not what I’m reading, here is a little bit I like: Check out the Facebook page here, and email the Center for a Zoom link related news, Audible is showing the 2017 Beren and Lúthien text–published 100 years after it was begun–as being released for audio on April 30th. We will take turns doing some readings in a Zoom gathering, sharing from Tolkien’s letters, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, and “The Lay of Leithian.” Lewis & Friends at Taylor University in Upland, IN is having a digital “tea” with the Beren and Lúthien at the core of it. I still love it, having read it through for class preparation this spring. “I don’t think I have ever read anything better than the tale of Beren and Lúthien.” If you would like to join in on future “digital teas,” get on their mailing list by emailing: have once before made this bold declaration:
They are an archive, a host of strong Inklings-informed study program that includes student and faculty research, and host the biannual Taylor Lewis & Friends conference. Lewis and Friends at Taylor University are having a digital Inklings “tea” on Friday’s at 4pm. This event is past, but The Center for the Study of C.S.
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