Tinuviel rescued Beren from the dungeons of Sauron, and together they passed through great dangers, and cast down even the Great Enemy from his throne, and took from his iron crown one of the three Silmarils, brighest of all jewels, to be the bride-price of Luthien to Thingol her father. Many sorrows befell them afterwards, and they were parted long. There he beheld Luthien singing and dancing in a glade beside the enchanted river Esgalduin and he named her Tinuviel, that is Nightingale in the language of old. But the Enemy was victorious and Barahir was slain, and Beren escaping through great peril came over the Mountains of Terror into the hidden Kingdom of Thingol in the forest of Neldoreth. In those days the Great Enemy, of whom Sauron of Mordor was but a servant, dwelt in Angband in the North, and the Elves of the West coming back to Middle-earth made war upon him to regain the Silmarils which he had stolen and the fathers of Men aided the Elves. In The Lord of the Rings Aragorn, on the hill of Weathertop, sang to his companions a song concerning the meeting of Beren son of Barahir and Luthien Tinuviel and when he had ended he spoke to them about the story, saying: 'Beren was a mortal man, but Luthien was the daughter of Thingol, a King of Elves upon Middle-Earth when the world was young and she was the fairest maiden that has ever been among all the children of this world. Also, I have transcribed the liner notes written by Christopher.

I have taken high resolution pics of this title as none were to be found online. Read masterfully by CJRT, it was released in 1977 by Caedmon Records. I recently acquired a copy of Beren and Luthien read by Christopher Tolkien.

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