6/3/2023 0 Comments Tolkien beren and luthien![]() ![]() ![]() Thus he wins the hand of Lúthien and the first marriage of mortal and immortal is achieved. It is Beren the outlawed mortal who succeeds (with the help of Lúthien, a mere maiden even if an elf of royalty) where all the armies and warriors have failed: he penetrates the stronghold of the Enemy and wrests one of the Silmarilli from the Iron Crown. 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. ‘The chief of the stories of the Silmarillion, and the one most fully treated is the Story of Beren and Lúthien the Elfmaiden. Tolkien to the publisher, Milton Waldman, he explained the central role of the tale of Beren and Lúthien in his legendarium: ![]()
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