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Beren and Lúthien

19 Oct, 2016
2016-10-19 9:39:28 PM UTC

(It was suggested that it needs its own thread.)

Here is the American press release:
http://www.hmhco.com/media-center/pre ... tolkien-beren-and-luthien

The only way I can parse it is that the main body of the book, the illustrated portion, is the version from The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two, followed by a long appendix by Christopher Tolkien exploring the further development of the story through “passages … from later texts”.

It is an odd choice, more a “proto-Beren and Lúthien” than anything else. It is a beautiful and fun text, but, Beren is not a mortal man in that version, nor is there any character named Lúthien. The only possible explanation that I can think of is that the publishers insisted, or Christopher was himself convinced, that it had to be (a) prose, and (b) complete.

Otherwise, it’s impossible not to conclude that ‘The Lay of Leithian’ is the masterpiece, the great and definitive version of this tale, which, even though it lacks an ending, is one of the longest and most substantive of all Tolkien’s Middle-earth writings. The more obvious solution would have been to supply a prose ending from the Silmarillion tradition (not at all unlike what was done to create a middle section for The Children of Húrin).
19 Oct, 2016
2016-10-19 10:38:49 PM UTC
That is also the way Wayne Hammond and Christina Scull have parsed the text in their blog post, though John Garth suggests that it may mean something else.

I have collected number of links, including those two, in my own post (and thank you for the link to the HMH press release!)

http://parmarkenta.blogspot.com/2016/10/on-beren-and-luthien.html
20 Oct, 2016
2016-10-20 9:25:42 AM UTC
Hopefully, they will do similar events to the Children of Hurin that was done for release of that book.
20 Oct, 2016
2016-10-20 11:35:43 AM UTC
So it's 304 pages... not bad. Just a little shorter in length than Children of Hurin.

http://www.tolkien.co.uk/product/9780 ... 97/BEREN+AND+L%C3%9ATHIEN

Not that the page count tells us anything about the content, but it's good to know this will be a modestly substantial read.
20 Oct, 2016
2016-10-20 3:06:10 PM UTC
Interesting looking at some news stories on the web, some seem to have an issue with "Lúthien"

In some cases it turns into the text below.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what ... -to-be-published-in-2017/

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9 Jan, 2017
2017-1-9 6:21:42 PM UTC
I'm very curious what the motif will be for the slipcase for the deluxe edition [uk publishers only.]
4 Feb, 2017
2017-2-4 2:36:35 AM UTC

scarlet_sorcerer wrote:
I'm very curious what the motif will be for the slipcase for the deluxe edition [uk publishers only.]

Yeah me too. IMO the best motifs have been for LOTR, The Hobbit and Talea From the Perilous Realm. The first two have a nice cut out on the slipcase through which the inner motif can be seen, while the third was just a beautiful amalgamation of individual motifs representing the individual "tales". Besides the fact they have beautiful colours and texture, and aren't just plain ol' gold stamping.

I feel like the rest are rather lazy in design and execution.
4 Jun, 2017 (edited)
2017-6-4 2:04:57 AM UTC
Can anyone give us a snap of the “Works by J.R.R. Tolkien” page from this book?

Any snaps, for that matter…?

Thanks!
4 Jun, 2017
2017-6-4 5:28:55 AM UTC

Ulmo wrote:
Can anyone give us a snap of the “Works by J.R.R. Tolkien” page from this book?

Any snaps, for that matter…?

Thanks!

Have a look at this thread for pictures and for the "Works by J.R.R. Tolkien" the link to the Amazon Look Inside for the book.

https://www.tolkienguide.com/modules/n ... t_id=17370#forumpost17370
16 Jun, 2017
2017-6-16 10:03:02 AM UTC
I finally got my Beren and Luthien deluxe edition today and the copyright page looks very weird. The typed content begins almost halfway down the page. Is this how everyone else's book is?
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