and now the tale of beren and luthien. the story of beren and luthien. of the creation of middle earth. it is a story that fascinated him. he could see any number of ways of treating it. and he tried them all. the book that we finally have is tolkien's interpretation, it using debt of blood tolkien's worse. —— jrr. —— christopher tolkien's interpretation. when edith died, he had the name luthien inscribed on her greystone. 80 years later, he died, and they in scribed beren on his grave. —— grave stone. so a lot of the stories start with a pencil drawing, and then i switched to watercolour. this will probably take at least two weeks, maybe more. this isa at least two weeks, maybe more. this is a painting of the prince of cats, that has imprisoned beren. luthien has gone into his flat and is about to rescue her. —— into his lair. it has been an immense privilege for me to be to explore the world created by tolkien in such detail. i do feel very responsible for how it is presented. i try not to impose my vision to strongly, leaving it to the imagination. ——