"Long was the way that fate them bore, O'er stony mountains cold and grey, Through halls of iron and darkling door, And woods of nightshade morrowless. The Sundering Seas between them lay, And yet at last they met once more, And long ago they passed away In the forest singing sorrowless." Beren and Lúthien, one of the most beautiful love stories ever told,was born from the heart of a man: J.R.R. Tolkien.This story is part of the Silmarillion,where the last version of Beren and Lúthien appears.The author wrote for several years different versions,I think he was really in love with this story and never wanted it to end. Beren was a mortal man and Lúthien an immortal elf.In the forest,dancing and singing was the beautiful elf,when the eyes of that mortal man reflected her silhouette.He came from the cold mountains and her singing released the spring.She was his Nightingale,so he called her.That was how their story began,in the forest glade,while in Beren's eyes appeared the glitter of Lúthien's hair.It seems an impossible love,doesn't it? But there was the magic,always the magic...Thingol, Lúthien's father,is opposed to the marriage,so he decides to order Beren an almost impossible mission in exchange for his daughter's hand: to recover a Silmaril from Melkor's hands.Travels,battles and magic accompany Beren in his challenge,but he is also followed by Lúthien.Magic and love are the real protagonists of this story,and Beren and Lúthien represent them.I don't want to reveal the story to you,I want you discover it for yourselves, to get excited and fall in love with it as its author did...
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