When he died in 1973,The HobbitandThe Lord of the Ringsauthor J.R.R.
Tolkien left his personal magnum opus largely uncompleted.
But Christopher didnt stop there.
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Tolkien ever came up with: The star-crossed romance of the human Beren and the elf Luthien.
Like many stories inThe Silmarillion, Beren and Luthien is an echo of a similar dynamic inLOTR.
Beren and Luthien have a similar dynamic, but of even more mythic proportions.
But with this book, Christopher proves it can also stand on its own and in many different forms!
Another version is written entirely in poetic verse.
The story of Beren and Luthien, after all, is one of Tolkiens most personal creations.
