Talk:Beren and Lúthien

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Beren and Lúthien on the gravestone of the Tolkiens

On the gravestone for J.R.R. Tolkien and his wife, "Lúthien" is marked after his wife's name and "Beren" is marked after his name.

Should someone say anything about that? 174.119.113.31 (talk) 05:20, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No one has disputed this as far as I know. Dyolf87 (talk) 12:13, 26 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It is already mentioned in the article, with a reference to Carpenter's biography. -- Elphion (talk) 14:11, 28 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 29 April 2018

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The result of the move request was: moved as requested per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 03:41, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The Tale of Beren and Lúthien → Beren and Lúthien – The current page title is not the correct title of this story, nor of the 2017 book. — Lawrence King ^(talk) 00:07, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The book was never oficially called The Tale of Beren and Lúthien, anв now we have standalone boook, with wich this article is partially concerned, named Beren and Lúthien. Should we move the article to this redirect? Smeagol 17 (talk) 09:28, 28 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support. This article is about all the versions of a story that has appeared under many titles: "The Tale of Tinúviel" (1917), "The Tale of Tinúviel" (1919-20), "The Lay of Leithian" (1925-31), portions of "The Quenta Noldorinwa" (1930), portions of "The Quenta Silmarillion" (1930s -- many revisions), the recommenced "Lay of Leithian" (1949-50), chapter 19 of the published Silmarillion entitled "Of Beren and Lúthien" (1977), and the recent book which contains excerpts of all these different versions entitled Beren and Lúthien (2017). None of these were entitled "The Tale of Beren and Lúthien"!! — Lawrence King ^(talk) 00:00, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Trashy aggregation in presence of actual reviews

An editor has now seen fit, twice, to try to force a trashy aggregation text that says nothing beyond a Facebook-worthy "like", when the article already has multiple, reliably-cited, independent reviews that actually state chapter and verse of what different sources think of the book. They are far better than any amount of "A++" or whatever guff the meta-sites now choose to fluff up their material with. There is no need whatsoever for such rubbish in any article that contains proper reviews; at best, it's a dreadful cheap stop-gap for articles where decent reviews haven't yet been published or are thought to be too much like hard work to discover and summarize: but that is, frankly, the work of editing Wikipedia. Chiswick Chap (talk) 11:05, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]