![]() “But I have only too much to say, and much already written, about the world into which the hobbit intruded.” The story of Beren, a mortal human, and Lúthien, an immortal elf, resonates throughout the corpus of Tolkien’s work born while Tolkien was shaking off the horrors of combat in World War I, it figures in The Silmarillion, the first of the major posthumous books, and in other of the Middle-earth books, to say nothing of The Lord of the Rings itself, when Aragorn sings of the fraught love between the two legendary figures. ![]() Tolkien wrote in frustration to his publisher. “I cannot think of anything more to say about hobbits,” J.R.R. ![]() Frodo-heads rejoice: from the Tolkien factory comes a foundational story a century in the making, one yarn to rule them all. ![]()
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