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Luthien Tinuviel
A brief telling of her story.
Eldarin princess, daughter of Thingol and Melian, the most beautiful of the Children of Iluvatar. Born in Doriath at the end of the first age of the Chaining of Melkor, Luthien spent long years dancing to the songs Daeron composed for her beauty, but she also learned, probably from Melian, the wisdom and power of her heritage.
In FA 465 Luthien was seen by Beren in Neldoreth, and the next spring she gave her love to him and received his mortality and the anguish of his fate. Torn between love for Beren and obedience to her father, Luthien decided on the former, and she aided Beren during his Quest of the Silmaril. Despite being betrayed to Thingol by Daeron and kidnapped by Curufin, Luthien, accompanied by Huan, at length came to Tolin-Gaurhoth, defeated Sauron, and freed Beren. Later she insisted on accompanying Beren to Angband, where her spells overcame Carcharoth and Morgoth. Luthien healed Beren of the envenomed wound he received from Carcharoth and returned with him to Doriath.
When Beren was slain in the Hunting of the Wolf, Luthien's spirit broke, and she came to Mandos in the Houses of the Dead. There she sang to him and moved him to pity, and Manwë offered her a new life. She chose a mortal life with Beren, and for about forty years the two lovers lived in Tol Galen. There Luthien bore her only child, Dior, and there, wearing the Nauglamir containing the Silmaril, she was the greatest vision of beauty ever seen outside Valinor.
Luthien's beauty was so great that it impelled many beings to love or lust, and in that impulse, the integrity of Beren and Huan may be distinguished from the baseness of Daeron, Curufin, and Morgoth. Yet her beauty was not merely of form, for her singing could charm even Morgoth and Mandos, great among the Ainur, and the nobility of her spirit and of her lineage strengthened her spells so that she could enchant Sauron and even Morgoth. Luthien was called Tinuviel for the beauty of her singing; the name was first used by Beren. In the Middle Earth histories, she is noted as the ancestress to Beren (He is half-elven) rather than the grandmother to Elwing.