Absolutely, it's one of his better stories. But it's not as if Christopher Tolkein has suddenly unearthed new material. He's gone and polished up some work th

Absolutely, it's one of his better stories. But it's not as if Christopher Tolkein has suddenly unearthed new material. He's gone and polished up some work that was published decades ago. The Tolkein literary estate is a money machine -- they've already published pretty much anything Tolkein ever wrote, no matter how disjointed or fragmentary. The tale of Beren and Luthien is well-known and memorable, and all the bits of it are in other books already.