A new book by Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien is going on sale – 100 years after it was first conceived.<\/p>\n
Beren and L\u00fathien has been described as a “very personal story” that the Oxford professor thought up after returning from the Battle of the Somme.<\/p>\n
It was edited by his son Christopher Tolkien and contains versions of a tale that became part of The Silmarillion.<\/p>\n
The book features illustrations by Alan Lee, who won an Academy Award for his work on Peter Jackson’s film trilogy.<\/p>\n
It is being published on Thursday by HarperCollins on the 10th anniversary of the last Middle Earth book, The Children of H\u00farin.<\/p>\n
Image copyrightALAN LEE<\/p>\n
Image caption<\/p>\n
Beren and L\u00fathien is a love story that was partly inspired by Tolkien’s wife, Edith<\/p>\n
Tolkien specialist John Garth, who wrote Tolkien And The Great War, said the Hobbit author used his writing like an “exorcism” of the horrors he witnessed in World War One.<\/p>\n
He said: “When he came back from the trenches, with trench fever, he spent the winter [of 1916-1917] convalescing.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Media captionAlan Lee won an Oscar for his work on Peter Jackson’s film trilogy<\/p>\n
“He’d lost two of his dearest friends on the Somme and you can imagine he must have been inside as much of a wreck as he was physically.”<\/p>\n
Mr Garth said on a walk in an East Yorkshire wood Tolkien’s wife Edith danced in a glade filled with white flowers, which became the key scene in Beren and L\u00fathien.<\/p>\n
He said: “Mr Tolkien felt the kind of joy he must have felt at times he would never feel again.”<\/p>\n
The names Beren and L\u00fathien are carved on the gravestone Tolkien and his wife share in Wolvercote cemetery in Oxford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A new book by Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien is going on sale – 100 years after it was first conceived. Beren and Lúthien has been described as a “very personal story” that the Oxford professor thought up after returning from the Battle of the Somme. It was edited by his son Christopher Tolkien and contains versions of a tale that became part of The Silmarillion. The book features illustrations by Alan Lee, who won an Academy Award for his work on Peter Jackson’s film trilogy. It is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7352,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7350\/revisions\/7352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}