"...IN HIS HEART HE CALLED HER TINÚVIEL, THAT SIGNIFIES NIGHTINGALE, DAUGHTER OF TWILIGHT..."

PIC INFO: Spotlight on Lúthien, also known as Tinúviel, "Daughter of Twilight," the immortal princess of Doriath, dancing in the woods of Neldoreth, and the most beautiful of all the Children of Ilúvatar to ever live. Artwork and/or watercolor painting by Alan Lee.

"...But wandering in the summer in the woods of Neldoreth [Beren] came upon Lúthien, daughter of Thingol and Melian, at a time of evening under moonrise, as she danced upon the unfading grass in the glades beside Esgalduin. Then all memory of his pain departed from him, and he fell into an enchantment; for Lúthien was the most beautiful of all the Children of Ilúvatar. Blue was her raiment as the unclouded heaven, but her eyes were grey as the starlit 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.

But she vanished from his sight; and he became dumb, as one that is bound under a spell, and he strayed long in the woods, wild and wary as a beast, seeking for her. In his heart he called her Tinúviel, that signifies Nightingale, daughter of twilight, in the Grey-elven tongue, for he knew no other name for her. And he saw her afar as leaves in the winds of autumn, and in winter as a star upon a hill, but a chain was upon his limbs."

-- THE SILMARILLION," "Of Beren and Lúthien," written by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien, published c. 1977

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