From a letter Talkien wrote after her death (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Tolkien https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Tolkien): "I never called Edith Lu

From a letter Talkien wrote after her death (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Tolkien https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Tolkien): "I never called Edith Luthien – but she was the source of the story that in time became the chief part of the Silmarillion. It was first conceived in a small woodland glade filled with hemlocks at Roos in Yorkshire (where I was for a brief time in command of an outpost of the Humber Garrison in 1917, and she was able to live with me for a while). In those days her hair was raven, her skin clear, her eyes brighter than you have seen them, and she could sing – and dance. But the story has gone crooked, & I am left, and I cannot plead before the inexorable Mandos." It's sad that although she was his Muse (at least in the younger days) they did not seem to share any of the lore he created in real life. She was not an intellectual and was not interested, he was a man's man (and also religious). "I never called Edith Luthien". What a missed opportunity!