During those six decades, it appeared as a long tale of the Lost Tales, as a summary in the 1926 Sketch of the Mythology (written for Tolkien’s beloved professor from King Edward’s, R.W. “Here we meet, among other things, the first example of the motive (to become dominant in Hobbits) that the great policies of world history, ‘the wheels of the world,’ are often turned not by the Lords and Governors, even gods, but by the seemingly unknown and weak-owing to the secret life in creation, and the part unknowable to all wisdom but One, that resides in the intrusions of the Children of God into the Drama.” Equally important for Tolkien’s entire mythology, Beren and Lúthien tells the tale of the first marriage of Elf (immortal) and man (mortal), so critical to the entire story.Īs with all of Tolkien’s great tales of the First Age, the story of Beren and Lúthien transformed dramatically over sixty years from its first imagining and version in 19 to its relatively finalized version in 1977’s The Silmarillion. Of the three, Tolkien explained, Beren and Lúthien most foreshadowed The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien wrote them in 19, beginning with The Children of Húrin, following it with the Fall of Gondolin, and completing the main three with Beren and Lúthien. Along with The Children of Húrin and The Fall of Gondolin, Beren and Lúthien formed the three greatest tales of the First Age, each, in some way, deeply tied to the saga of the three silmarils. “The chief of the stories of The Silmarillion, and the one most fully treated is the Story of Beren and Lúthien the Elfmaiden,” Tolkien wrote Milton Waldman of Collins Publishers in 1951.
It matters profoundly in “The Lord of the Rings” and indeed also mattered profoundly in Tolkien’s own life. Tolkien’s story of Beren and Lúthien remains one of the most beautiful parts of Tolkien’s entire mythology.
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