Dreams Underfoot: UnquietDreams' Dark Whimsy

"It is told in the Lay of Leithian that Beren came stumbling into Doriath grey and bowed as with many years of woe, so great had been the torment of the road. But wandering in the summer in the woods of Neldoreth he came upon Luthien, daughter of Thingol and Melian, at a time of evening under moonrise, as she danced upon the unfading grass in the glades beside Egalduin. Then all memory of his pain departed him, and he fell into an enchantment; for Luthien was most beautiful of all the Children of Iluvatar. Blue was her raiment as the unclouded heaven, but her eyes were grey as the star-lit evening; her mantle was sewn with golden flowers, but her hair was dark as the shadows of twilight. As the light upon the leaves of trees, as the voice of clear waters, as the stars above the mists of the world, such was her glory and her loveliness; and in her face was a shining light."
-- J.R.R. Tolkien, Silmarillion

Tolkien was writing about his wife, Edith. Their gravestones are marked with the names "Beren" and "Luthien."
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"It is told in the Lay of Leithian that Beren came stumbling into Doriath grey and bowed as with many years of woe, so great had been the torment of the road. But wandering in the summer in the woods of Neldoreth he came upon Luthien, daughter of Thingol and Melian, at a time of evening under moonrise, as she danced upon the unfading grass in the glades beside Egalduin. Then all memory of his pain departed him, and he fell into an enchantment; for Luthien was most beautiful of all the Children of Iluvatar. Blue was her raiment as the unclouded heaven, but her eyes were grey as the star-lit evening; her mantle was sewn with golden flowers, but her hair was dark as the shadows of twilight. As the light upon the leaves of trees, as the voice of clear waters, as the stars above the mists of the world, such was her glory and her loveliness; and in her face was a shining light."
-- J.R.R. Tolkien, Silmarillion

Tolkien was writing about his wife, Edith. Their gravestones are marked with the names "Beren" and "Luthien."
https://i.ibb.co/sbm2CPV/img-20210408-091334.jpg
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