How long does it take to read Beren and Lúthien?
J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien, ʻImanuʼel Loṭem
Beren and Lúthien by J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien, ʻImanuʼel Loṭem takes about 5 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 27 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2017. 297 pages, about 81,675 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 5 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 27 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 24 minutes |
The page count is the median across 22 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Beren and Lúthien gathers several versions of one of J. R. R. Tolkien's earliest Middle-earth tales into a single volume published in 2017. The story belongs to the First Age, thousands of years before the later events of Middle-earth, and counts among three Great Tales of that era. It follows the love and adventures of Beren, a mortal Man, and Lúthien, an immortal Elf-maiden. Tolkien drew on his devotion to his wife Edith for the tale and rewrote it repeatedly over the years.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: Middle earth (imaginary place), fiction, Fiction, fantasy, epic, Middle Earth (Imaginary place), Fiction, Elves, Good and evil
