I have often wondered whether Tolkien intended to rewrite the entire Silmarillion in the style which appears in the tales of Turin and Tuor as published in Unfinished Tales. I now think that, at some point, he intended to write the stories of Beren, Turin and Tuor for a separate volume or a sort of appendix to the Silmarillion. Unfortunately, he never finished the tale of Tuor and apparently never started a long version of Beren and Luthien.
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Beleriand, Beleriand,
the borders of the Elven-land.
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