{"product_id":"beren-and-lthien-9781328791825","title":"Beren And Lthien","description":"\u003cp\u003ePainstakingly restored from J.R.R. Tolkiens manuscripts and presented for the first time as a continuous and standalone story  the epic tale of Beren and Lthien 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 this high fantasy world of Tolkiens Middle-earth. The tale of Beren and Lthien 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 this epic romance  and never changed  is the fate that shadowed the love of Beren and Lthien: for Beren was a mortal man  but Lthien 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 Lthien. This is the kernel of the legend; and it leads to the supremely heroic attempt of Beren and Lthien together to rob the greatest of all evil beings  Melkor  called Morgoth  the Black Enemy  of a Silmaril in a legendary quest. In this book Christopher Tolkien has attempted to extract the story of Beren and Lthien 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 fathers 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665794031669,"sku":"ByrdShop_1328791823","price":43.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781328791825.jpg?v=1782407564","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/beren-and-lthien-9781328791825","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}