Tomorrow’s Excerpt on WordPress: A Special Gift.
It isn’t much really--nothing no one here hasn’t read about. But finally, both book blogs are caught up so expect to see posts on Tumblr and WordPress simultaneously. Now for the gift.
21 January 1889, a little girl named Edith was born. I hardly think anyone would have guessed such a tiny little thing would be immortalized by her future husband as the most famous elven beauty in all of the world--Arda that is. But here she is--the lovely face that stole the heart of a young John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. She was his Lúthien Tinúviel to his Beren. Even in death, the world would forever know the story behind the story of eternal love.
I barely noticed while I was writing my story that I had described a new little elfling and one of little Oropher’s new playmates as "an unusually beautiful child with the fairest of skin and the darkest of hair." But the last word written in that part was worth remembering--Lúthien.
And in the next excerpt coming next week, the unusually beautiful child is starting to grow up. Without giving too much away, she delights in moving around a lot much to the chagrin of her father the king and is often found in nature beneath the stars. Apparently, her “ladies” are not much for keeping watch over their ward (ask a very youthful Nimeithel and her sister Valdúril). Among those sent to find her is a rather curious little elfling named Celeborn.
Either way, I’m sure when Oropher has his say, he will have plenty to say to and about Tolkien’s most legendary beauty--so beautiful, she had to be reincarnated for one lifetime was never enough to spend with her.
So at 8 am the world will awaken to a small introduction to Lúthien as a little elfling--her eternal beauty prevalent and as Tolkien once wrote:
“Though Middle-earth lay for the most part in the Sleep of Yavanna, in Beleriand under the power of Melian there was life and joy, and the bright stars shone as silver fires; and in the forest of Neldoreth Lúthien was born, and the white flowers of niphredil came forth to greet her as stars from the earth.”--The Silmarillion (Chapter 10: Of the Sindar)
Happy 120♾ Birthday Edith Mary Tolkien “Lúthien”
I hope you enjoy the introduction of Lúthien in Book I: The Epic of Eryn Galen and many more to come. Here: @tkwrtrilogy3 .
