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=== Beren and Lúthien ===

{{further|The Tale of Beren and Lúthien}}

The first of these was between the mortal [[Beren]], of the House of Bëor, and [[Lúthien]], daughter of the Elf [[Thingol]], king of the [[Sindar]], and [[Melian (Middle-earth)|Melian]], a [[Maia (Middle-earth)|Maia]]. Beren died in the quest for the [[Silmaril]], and in despair, Lúthien's spirit departed her body and made its way to the halls of [[Mandos]]. Mandos allowed them a unique fate, and they were re-bodied as mortals in Middle-earth, where they dwelt until their second deaths. Their son Dior, heir of the Sindarin kingdom of [[Doriath (Middle-earth)|Doriath]] and of the Silmaril, was thus one-quarter Elvish by blood and one-quarter Maian, and half-human. He was killed while still young, when the [[sons of Fëanor]] sacked Doriath. Dior's wife was Nimloth, a Sindarin Elf, and with her he had three children, Elwing and two sons (thus, half-elven but not between Edain and Eldar, men and Elves of the highest blood).<ref name="Hammond Scull 2005"/>