Tolkien's Requiem: Concerning

I will tell you the tale of Tinúviel,’ said Strider, ‘in brief – for it is a long tale of which the end is not known . . . though it is sad, as are all tales of Middle-earth . . . yet it may lift up your hearts.’ The shared gravestone of J.R.R. Tolkien and his wife Edith bears two simple epitaphs: