Título: Beren and Lúthien
Autor: J. R. R. Tolkien
Sinopse: Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, the epic tale of Beren and Lúthien will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, Dwarves and Orcs and the rich landscape and creatures unique to Tolkien's Middle-earth. 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.
Contexto da obra
Na ficção, o interesse por um livro costuma começar na história, mas não termina nela. “Beren and Lúthien”, de J. R. R. Tolkien, publicado pela editora HarperCollins Publishers Limited, em 2022 e com 288 páginas, integra a categoria Livros de Ficção. Por isso, o livro tende a ganhar mais presença quando o leitor observa também como a história é contada.
Editora: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Páginas: 288
Ano: 2022
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 9780008503963
ISBN13: 9780008503963
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora HarperCollins Publishers Limited oferecem uma experiência de leitura que transita entre o suspense internacional e a reinterpretação de clássicos literários. O catálogo revela um interesse por narrativas que misturam mistério, aventura e drama, muitas vezes ambientadas em cenários históricos ou fantásticos, como moors sombrios, palácios antigos e mundos imaginários. A linguagem tende a ser rica e envolvente, com ritmo que varia do tenso e investigativo ao mais contemplativo e romântico. Há também espaço para histórias que exploram relações humanas complexas, desde amizades improváveis até amores reencontrados, sempre com um tom que valoriza o desenvolvimento emocional dos personagens.
