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Lúthien Tinúviel
Daughter of Melian and Elwë, wife of Beren Son of Barahir, Fairest of all the Children of Ilúvatar
Revised version posted April 1, 2006. Revisions will overwrite old versions.
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Now there's a challenge: trying to make a Sim for "the fairest of all the Children of Ilúvatar." Impossible, really, but I figured it was also going to eventually be impossible to NOT try to make a Sim for Lúthien, as she is ultimately the heroine of The Silmarillion and one of Tolkien's most memorable characters. In attempting to design her, I fell back on descriptions we were given in the poem Aragorn recites to the Hobbits at Weathertop in LotR:
Tinúviel was dancing there
to music of a pipe unseen,
and light of stars was in her hair,
and in her raiment glimmering....
...He peered between the hemlock leaves
And saw in wonder flowers of gold
Upon her mantle and her sleeves,
And her hair like shadow following....
...As Beren looked into her eyes
Withiin the shadows of her hair,
The trembling starlight of the skies
He saw there mirrored shimmering.
Tinúviel the elven-fair,
Immortal maiden elven-wise,
About him cast her shadowy hair
And arms like silver glimmering.
Now, the "arms like silver" is obviously poetic license for pale skin, but the repeated references to "shadow" when describing her hair would seem to indicate that it was dark and lustrous. I managed to work in the "raiment glimmering" and the "flowers of gold" upon her sleeves, but I decided to skip the mantle, largely because I haven't quite gotten the mesh I wanted to make for it to behave properly. Perhaps some time in the future....
For those who might be interested, I once wrote a tune for this particular poem; a rather mediocre (depending on your sound card) MIDI version of it can be heard here.
