Beren and Luthien-贝伦与露西安

作者：J.R.R. Tolkien

书名：Beren and Luthien《贝伦与露西安》

中文简介：《贝伦与露西恩》（英语：Beren and Lúthien）是一部英国作家J·R·R·托尔金创作的奇幻文学作品，在其逝世后由其子克里斯多夫·托尔金整理手稿，终于2017年6月1日正式出版。本书主要讲述了于第一纪元的中土大陆，人类男子贝伦与精灵公主露西恩之间的爱情，以及两人如何携手对抗魔苟斯黑暗势力的故事。这个故事的最初版本是托尔金在1917年撰写的，当时故事里的贝伦是精灵而非人类；随后在托尔金的一生当中，这个故事历经了许多次的修改；而《贝伦与露西恩》则是收录了这些故事不同阶段的版本，并非是托尔金所撰写的完整故事。

英文简介：The tale of Beren and Lúthien was, or became, an essential element in the evolution of The Silmarillion, the myths and legends of the First Age of the World conceived by J.R.R. Tolkien. Returning from France and the battle of the Somme at the end of 1916, he wrote the tale in the following year.

Essential to the story, and never changed, is the fate that shadowed the love of Beren and Lúthien: for Beren was a mortal man, but Lúthien was an immortal elf. Her father, a great elvish lord, in deep opposition to Beren, imposed on him an impossible task that he must perform before he might wed Lúthien. This is the kernel of the legend; and it leads to the supremely heroic attempt of Beren and Lúthien together to rob the greatest of all evil beings, Melkor, called Morgoth, the Black Enemy, of a Silmaril.

In this book Christopher Tolkien has attempted to extract the story of Beren and Lúthien from the comprehensive work in which it was embedded; but that story was itself changing as it developed new associations within the larger history. To show something of the process whereby this legend of Middle-earth evolved over the years, he has told the story in his father’s own words by giving, first, its original form, and then passages in prose and verse from later texts that illustrate the narrative as it changed. Presented together for the first time, they reveal aspects of the story, both in event and in narrative immediacy, that were afterwards lost.