Beren and Luthien Tease
Pictured above is the backcover from the forthcoming Beren and Luthien . Before I get into this post, I will say a big thanks to "Tolkien Italia" for providing this info on The Tolkien Society's Facebook group page. What follows is what they've posted to the group: News about "Beren and Luthien" with extracts from Christopher's Preface. Here's the table of contents: CONTENTS - List of plates (p.8) - Preface (p.9) - Beren and Lúthien (p. 27) - Appendix: Revisions to “The Lay of Leithian” (p.257) - List of Names (p.274) - Cat3 (p. 286) ------------------------------------------ In addition, some extracts from the preface of Christopher Tolkien. «After the publication of The Silmarillion in 1977 I spent several years investigating the earlier history of the work, and writing a book which I called “The History of The Silmarillion”. Later this because the (somewhat shortened) basis of the earlier volumes of “The History of Middle-earth”. In 1981 I wrote...