Lúthien: The Maiden Who Broke Morgoth | Tolkien Explained
Was Lúthien Tinúviel the most powerful being ever to walk Middle-earth? Tolkien called her a maid, yet this half-Elven, half-Maia princess of Doriath did what no king or army of the First Age could. In this deep dive into Tolkien's Silmarillion, we test one audacious claim with three impossible feats: she mastered Sauron in single contest at Tol-in-Gaurhoth, she sang Morgoth himself to sleep inside Angband so a Silmaril could be cut from his Iron Crown, and she moved Mandos to pity, winning Beren back from death.Drawing on her descent from Melian, the power of song as creation, and her…
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