It’s love at first sight, but Lúthien’s father Thingol lays a challenge at their feet before they can wed. They must retrieve a Silmaril from Morgoth’s crown, and Thingol thinks this ...
An illuminating example is that of Lúthien in the Silmarillion, the daughter of the great elven king Thingol who, along with her eventual husband Beren, subdued the great enemy Morgoth with ...
And Thingol and Melian, and they’re sort of like, don’t they just stare at each other in the woods for 200 years or something like that? He writes this epic love. It’s stunning. And Elrond ...