Beren and Lúthien

Towards the end of last year, a bunch of Tolkien's works went on sale at the Kindle store. I bought lots of the posthumous works, including this one. I went into this one with trepidation because I had read some reviews and knew that unlike The Children of Hurin, this was not just the prose version of the story. Rather it has a prose version and then some prose and verse segments detailing parts of the story as well as providing some introductory pieces, plus explanations by Christopher Tolkien on the evolution of the story. It's not as much of an analysis of the work, like what we get in the History of Middle Earth series, but a compilation. So instead of feeling like visiting an old friend like with Hurin, it felt a little tired.

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