Beren and Lúthien

以《魔戒》系列作聞名世界的英國大作家托爾金，在逝世四十多年後，由托爾金的兒子整理書稿，再次推出新作，本書最早於一九一七連開始撰寫，到美國版出版的二零一七年足足過了一百年，再次重新中土世界的愛恨情仇。

故事講述第一紀元的中土世界，人類之子貝倫和精靈公主露西安的愛情故事。

露西安是備受寵愛的精靈公主，她和貝倫的感情是不被允許的，因此，精靈王庭葛，也就是露西安的父親，故意指派一項艱難幾近不可能的任務給貝倫，完成任務才能和露西安成親。

這項任務就是去黑暗之地魔苟斯將一個精靈寶鑽取回。

但魔苟斯是索倫的主人，是極為黑暗的存在，過程非常艱辛，露西安也是想盡辦法幫助貝倫，最後雖然貝倫完成了任務，卻被惡狼咬掉手臂，好不容易到手的精靈寶鑽也被惡狼吞下。

貝倫最後為了保護庭葛身受重傷死去。

Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts and presented for the first time as a continuous and standalone story, the epic tale of Beren and Luthien will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, Dwarves and Orcs and the rich landscape and creatures unique to Tolkien's Middle-earth. The tale of Beren and Luthien was, or became, an essential element in the evolution of The Silmarillion, the myths and legends of the First Age of the World conceived by J.R.R. Tolkien. Returning from France and the battle of the Somme at the end of 1916, he wrote the tale in the following year. Essential to the story, and never changed, is the fate that shadowed the love of Beren and Luthien: for Beren was a mortal man, but Luthien was an immortal Elf. Her father, a great Elvish lord, in deep opposition to Beren, imposed on him an impossible task that he must perform before he might wed Luthien. This is the kernel of the legend; and it leads to the supremely heroic attempt of Beren and Luthien together to rob the greatest of all evil beings, Melkor, called Morgoth, the Black Enemy, of a Silmaril. In this book Christopher Tolkien has attempted to extract the story of Beren and Luthien from the comprehensive work in which it was embedded; but that story was itself changing as it developed new associations within the larger history. To show something of the process whereby this legend of Middle-earth evolved over the years, he has told the story in his father's own words by giving, first, its original form, and then passages in prose and verse from later texts that illustrate the narrative as it changed. Presented together for the first time, they reveal aspects of the story, both in event and in narrative immediacy, that were afterwards lost.