Понеже Едит е починала преди него, логично нейното "Лутиен" е написано преди неговото "Берен" и тогава възниква въпросът дали той е поискал написването на Лутиен и ако е така, то дали си е поискал и написването на Берен, или някой близък го е добавил логично.

Оговорът май е из писмата.

“…I met the Luthien Tinuviel of my own personal ‘romance' with her long dark hair, fair face and starry eyes, and beautiful voice…. But now she has gone before Beren, leaving him indeed one-handed, but he has no power to move the inexorable Mandos…”
About the grave inscription, he wrote on 11th July 1972:
“I have never called Edith Luthien - but she was the source of the story that in time became the chief part of The Silmarilion. It was first conceived in a woodland glade filled with hemlocks at Roos in Yorkshire…”

“…For ever (especially when alone) we still met in the woodland glade, and went hand in hand many times to escape the shadow of imminent death before our last parting.”


That Edith Tolkien was the direct inspiration for Luthien, and for the tale of Beren and Luthien as a whole, is made clear in letters Tolkien wrote after her death in 1971.

He remarked of this inscription (този на гроба):

"brief and jejune, except for Luthien, which says for me more than a multitude of words: for she was, and knew she was, my Luthien."

"I hope none of my children will feel that the use of this name is a sentimental fancy ... but she was the source of the story that in time became the chief part of the Silmarillion... For ever (especially when alone) we still met in the woodland glade, and went hand in hand many times to escape the shadow of imminent death before our last parting..."


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