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Having read the Carpenter biography and also the Carpenter Inklings book whick talks of the unhappiness at times of the Tolkiens marriage I have never thought of the story without thinking of poor Edith..being deified ain't all it is cracked up to be. And Beren and Luthien create such collateral damage in satifying their own wants. I always found Thingol and Melian's own love story far more impressive.
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“But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.”
Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace
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