Dedicated to ~Adimo-Rosa , a big fan of Luthien Tinuviel, and one of my biggest supporters on dA



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This is my second entry for *PersephoneStock's contest "Bring Literature to Life". I tried to depict Luthien Tinuviel, a character from J.R.Tolkien's Silmarillion. The poem below can also be found in the first volume of The Lord of the Rings, but if you are interested in the whole story, read the Silmarillion.

You can find the whole poem here:[link]
Here are some parts of the poem:


"Through woven woods in Elvenhome
She lightly fled on dancing feet,
And left him lonely still to roam
In the silent forest listening.
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He heard there oft the flying sound
Of feet as light as linden-leaves,
Or music welling underground,
In hidden hollows quavering.
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When winter passed, she came again,
And her song released the sudden spring,
Like rising lark, and falling rain,
And melting water bubbling.
He saw the elven-flowers spring
About her feet, and healed again
He longed by her to dance and sing
Upon the grass untroubling.
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Again she fled, but swift he came,
Tinuviel! Tinuviel!
He called her by her elvish name;
And there she halted listening.
One moment stood she, and a spell
His voice laid on her: Beren came,
And doom fell on Tinuviel
That in his arms lay glistening.
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Lúthien Tinúviel is a character in the fantasy-world Middle-earth of the English author J. R. R. Tolkien. Though she is technically Half-elven because her father is an Elf and her mother is a Maia, she is never called that, and is considered an Elf.

Lúthien was the only child of Elu Thingol, king of Doriath, and his queen, Melian the Maia. Lúthien's romance with the mortal man Beren is one of the great stories of the Elder Days. It is mirrored by the later romance between Aragorn and Arwen Evenstar and also has similarities to the romance of her parents. The Tale of Beren and Lúthien is told in one chapter of The Silmarillion and in the epic poem The Lay of Leithian.

The name Lúthien appears to mean "enchantress" in a Beleriandic dialect of Sindarin, but it can also be translated "flower maiden". Tinúviel was a name given to her by Beren. It literally means dusk-singer, which signifies "Nightingale". She is described as the Morning Star of the Elves, while Arwen is called Evenstar, the Evening Star.


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