Unpublished Tolkien novel about love will be released in 2017 – tvnz

foreign media have reported that previously unreleased “the Story of Berane and Luthien” John R. R. Tolkien will be published in may 2017.

a love Story of man and immortal elf, written in 1917, after Tolkien returned from the front, will be published by the publishing house HarperCollins, the Guardian writes. In the story, the elf – father Lucien, which is against lovers, gives Berino impossible tasks that that you must meet in order to be reunited with his beloved.

it is Worth noting that the characters “stories about Berane and Luthien” was as important for English writer, that their names are carved on the tombstone, installed on the grave of Tolkien and his wife Edith bratt.