Beren and Lúthien

Before you is a story of true love and loyalty, bravery and courage.
Beren, a simple mortal, dared to ask the elven king Thingol for his daughter, the beautiful Lúthien, in marriage. The lord of Doriath set an truly impossible task before the brave man: to bring him a Silmaril, the most precious creation of Fëanor, the very Stone that the Dark Lord Morgoth set into his crown...
Christopher Tolkien tells about the evolution of the poem "Beren and Lúthien", about how the idea of one of the three key episodes, three great plots of the "Silmarillion" developed.