JRR Tolkien’s legend of the mortal man Beren and the immortal elf Lúthien – a story that meant so much to the Lord of the Rings author that the characters’ names are engraved on the headstone shared by him and his wife – is to be published next year. The Middle-earth tale tells of the love between the mortal man and the immortal elf. The story was written in 1917 after Tolkien returned from the Somme, where he had served as a signaller. Beren and Lúthien, edited by Christopher Tolkien and illustrated by Alan Lee, will be released on the 10th anniversary of the publication of The Children of Húrin. That book was started in 1917-18 by Tolkien, who kept working on versions of it over the next three decades.

Source: The Guardian October 19, 2016 11:45 UTC