The Day I Met Tolkien: He Shared the Memory That Shaped Middle-earth

A memorable moment during the time I when met Tolkien, working at that time for his publisher, George Allen and Unwin.

The story of Edith dancing in a woodland glade was deeply important to Tolkien. He wrote in a letter that seeing Edith dance among flowering hemlock in a woodland clearing inspired the tale of Beren and Lúthien. Lúthien's dancing in the woods became one of the central images in his mythology.