Well we honestly thought we’d never see another book from Lord of the Rings creator JRR Tolkien given that he died in 21973, but here we are…
Beren and Lúthien is a new book from the author that was written almost 100 years ago, after he returned from the Battle of the Somme.
The new book was edited by Tolkien’s son Christopher Tolkien and will have illustrations (above and below) by Alan Lee, who won an Academy Award for his work on Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies.
“Beren and Lúthien is a love story that was partly inspired by Tolkien’s wife, Edith Tolkien specialist John Garth, who wrote Tolkien And The Great War, said the Hobbit author used his writing like an “exorcism” of the horrors he witnessed in World War One.”
He said: “When he came back from the trenches, with trench fever, he spent the winter [of 1916-1917] convalescing.
“He’d lost two of his dearest friends on the Somme and you can imagine he must have been inside as much of a wreck as he was physically.”
The book is out now and we know it’s going to be on Tolkien fans’ must get list.
Source: BBC
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