I'm extremely glad you posted the story. As I mentioned in our email discussion, the story does not become any less rewarding in reading or re-reading (and I did that several times by now).

I still love the sharp focus on mood and images, too, as well as the mixture of whimsy, realism and the romanticized remnants of the original story, which makes for a fascinating whole - all the more impressive considering it's your first Tolkien-based fic in a long time.

That is very interesting! I'm not sure I have read a first encounter between Beren and Luthien before that seemed so convincing to me. It is difficult to write Luthien--and Beren, too--and you do it well.