The love story that meant the most to Tolkien himself, though, was the story of Beren and Lúthien, which was directly inspired by the writer’s own life. Beren was a mortal Man from a royal ...

The LOTR movies' Arwen takes traits from another female Tolkien character, Luthien, whose story was never adapted for the ...

The author’s grave, in fact, refers to Tolkien as Beren and his wife Edith as Lúthien. “She was the source of the story,” Tolkien once wrote in a letter to Christopher after Edith’s death.

Luthien and Beren's story echoes the real author's love story even more so though as the pair went through plenty of their own trials before getting their happy ending. While Tolkien started ...

Beren and Lúthien, which first appeared in a reduced form within The Silmarillion, is a love story set during the First Age. Christopher Tolkien compiled various versions of the story to create a ...

In his preface, Christopher Tolkien writes that he thought “Beren and Lúthien” would be the final of his father’s stories published on his watch. “The presumption proved wrong ...

At Tolkien's instructions, their shared gravestone has the names "Beren" and "Luthien" engraved on it, a reference to a famous pair of star-crossed lovers from the fictional world he created.