Eldarin princess, daughter of thingol and Melian, the most beautiful of the Children of Ilúvatar. Born in Doriath at the end of the first age of the Chaining of Melkor, Lúthien spent long years dancing to the songs Daeron composed for her beauty, but she also learned, probably from Melian, the wisdom and power of her heritage.
In FA 465 Lúthien was seen by Beren in Neldoreth, and the next spring she gave her love to him and received his mortality and the anguish of his fate. Torn between love for Beren and obedience of her father, Lúthien decided on the former, and she aided Beren during his Quest of the Silmaril. Despite being betrayed to Thingol by Daeron and kidnapped by Curufin, Lúthien, accompanied by Huan, at length came to Tol-in-Gaurhoth, defeated Sauron, and freed Beren. Later she insisted on accompanying Beren to Angband, where her spells overcame Carcharoth and Morgoth. Lúthien healed Beren of the envenomed wound he received from Carcharoth and returned with him to Doriath.
When Beren was slain in the Hunting of the Wolf, Lúthien's spirit broke, and she came to Mandos inn the Houses of the Dead. There she sang to him and moved him to pity, and Manwë offered her a new life. She chose a mortal life with Beren, and for about forty years the two lovers lived in Tol Galen. There Lúthien bore her only child, Dior, and there, wearing the Nauglamír containing the Silmaril, she was the greatest vision of beauty ever seen outside Valinor.
Lúthien's beauty was so great that it impelled many beings to love or lust, and in that impulse the integrity of Beren and Huan may be distinguished from the baseness of Daeron, Curufind, and Morgoth. Yet her beauty was not merely of form, for her singing could charm even Morgoth and Mandos, great among the Ainur, and the nobility of her spirit and of her lineage strengthened her spells so that she could enchant Sauron and even Morgoth.
Lúthien was called Tinúviel for the beauty of her sinnging; the name was first used by Beren.

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