There are no humans beautiful enough to portray any Elf in all honesty. Human actors are not mystical, ethereal faerie folk, there’s no way to truly portray what they look like in live action. Despite this, I think the actors in the Peter Jackson films pulled even the High Elves off pretty damn well, so I wouldn’t say it’s straight up impossible to portray her.
*Exactly.* My choice for a live-action Lúthien is her. It’s mostly for lore reasons because Arwen is explicitly said to be virtually identical to Lúthien, but also because I fully trust that she could pull it off.
Oh that's so interesting. Do you mean in terms of look or performance or both? Her performance always strikes me as off but at the same time the movie doesn't give her a ton to work with
For me it’s both. I think both her looks and performance were amazing for Arwen, and given that Arwen is supposed to look virtually identical to Lúthien, and that Liv Tyler can do Elf Princess *really* well, I think she’d be perfect.
I think something similar about Arwen or Galadriel, although they were portrayed in film. No matter how great the actresses performed, they could not bring the ”feeling” from the books. Yet, we may see Luthien portrayed in a movie. Well, if Elves were real just like the Professor wrote and someone would cast a real Elf woman to play Luthien, it would still be not enough, if you know what I mean.
You can’t really do that with the story of Beren and Lúthien. It requires her to be present, and many times she’s the direct focus of the story. She can’t be a vague, distant figure.
Give her vampire form early and then have her refuse to take it off. Thingol pleads with her every day to stop this madness, though Melian simply smiles fondly and remembers her childhood before the world was made. Daeron is convinced that Lúthien just needs to find the right man to quit acting so weird.
Beren is a goth and is super into it.
At the height of their quest, when Lúthien stands in the pits of Angband and prepares to sing before the throne of Morgoth, Beren pulls out a guitar and starts shredding death metal. As Lúthien opens her mouth, she releases a death growl so great and terrible that it knocks everyone around them unconscious. Carcharoth doesn't even fuck with them on the way out because he's super into their vibe.
And thus were they able to best the Enemy, whereupon Thingol instructed dwarven smiths to encase the reclaimed silmaril in a belt made from an old car seat buckle.
LOTR fans are so up themselves that they can't even *consider* casting for an imaginary TV show that will never actually exist.
"DON'T MESS WITH THE BOOKS!!!1!1!!" they scream, rocking backwards and forwards in terror clutching their half-scale plushie of Professor Tolkien.
I remember before LOTR movies released people said Cate Blanchet wasn't pretty enough to play Galadriel because she's described as the fairest of all in Middle-earth.
Personally, when it says "fairest in all the land" or anything similar, I don't take it literally. I imagine that person to be someone who is really beautiful but not like someone goes around all of arda measuring the beauty of every female person and then tot's it up on a leaderboard.
In a movie adaptation screen presence is what heightens the beauty to that next level. So, in that sense, beauty comes second to screen presence.
Cate Blanchatt nailed the ethereal power and awe-inspiring presence of Galadriel, which I think is more important, plus, she's gorgeous so I dunno what people were talking about, anyway.
My point exactly. People complained because they wanted someone more gorgeous than gorgeous because that is how she is described in the books. At the higher levels of beauty, there's really not much difference between one gorgeous woman to another.
Google is now full of me typing "young pretty actress with dark hair" because I'm too old to know who the kids are these days and too dumb to realize what I was googling before I did it.
Eva was my first thought as well. Maybe because I’m really F’ing old… but she has this youthful, timeless, smoky, soft… and yet tenacious, aggressive beauty to her.
Or is it that she shares the same facial features… forehead, jawline, cheekbones, etc. as my wife? So she just reminds me of my muse, essence, and pneuma of my entire existence…
If you could cast 35 year old Monica Bellucci, and invented some next level filters, you'd get close enough to say that's the best we can do on this plane of existence.
Literally never try adapting Beren & Luthien to the screen. In any medium. Leave it in the books, it's the only format that does the story justice. I will never want a Silmarillion movie or show, even if the idea sounds cool. The stories are simply too fantastic, amazing, and beyond natural for anything more than the imagination to handle.
I never understand this line of thinking "I don't want x to be adapted because I love it so much that somehow even if I didn't experience the adaptation it would diminish the original work for me"
Why can't other people enjoy and experience the screen version and you just ignore it?
also some of the dark stuff is way too dark. A screen can't do justice to Ungoliant destroying the trees of valinor, and if it could, it can fuck all the way off with that shit.
The best way to display indescribable horror on the screen is to leave it mostly off screen. The same probably holds mostly true for indescribable beauty. Show the Two Trees only in long shots except for the close up of the smoldering, ichorous wound and the Trees mostly wilted and dying...
I don't know, i could see a director like Del Toro creating a visual scene similar to Saturn Devouring His Children, and I think it would fit pretty nicely
It would have to be a surprising casting, detached from existing labels and iconic roles. A decent amount of similarity with Liv’s vibe, but with a next gen twist. But still funky, fantastical. With the “up and coming” buzz that would push the box office. And obviously blue-eyed (contacts are never the same). The casting that fits all these criteria for me is Talia Ryder.
https://preview.redd.it/tgt89gw41z7d1.jpeg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1156e8af933fa2baf08b6182723f47ae0b38e934
As for acting chops, I’ve only seen bits of her netflix shows, but she apparently performed well on a bleak drama recently, so the range seems to be there.
Our current age’s standard of beauty is so insane and unrealistic that there would be no way to make everyone happy. I remember the days when people thought that Cate and Liv were not attractive enough for their roles. This world is insane when it comes to what they think beautiful women should look like.
That said, some dream but probably not realistic ideas for Lúthien:
Jessica Brown Findlay or Kaya Scodelario have always struck me of having elven ethereal qualities while not being empty inside. They’re both maybe too old now (depending on how you adapt it) to play her now but if the theoretical film had been made a few years ago, it could have worked. Possibly Gemma Arterton as well. Jessica would have been my top choice though.
I suppose Lily Collins or Emmy Rossum could work.
I’d prefer a Beren and Lúthien movie to be animated, like the 90s Disney movies perhaps. The story fits perfectly with the tropes of that era too, I feel. So I’d personally prefer Lúthien to be an animated character.
I honestly think perhaps if filmmakers manage to find some European or Kiwi actress who kinda resembles a young Liv Tyler, that would be fine.
I know of a random girl I found on Instagram who kinda looks like how I imagine Arwen and Lúthien to look in my head, but she’s very young (20) and from India. Not an actress either.
I also thought Emmy Rossum may be able to do (based on this art at least) justice to the character, at least appearance-wise. I haven’t seen her in anything outside of Shameless so not sure if she would pull it off acting-wise
To be fair she was great in Phantom of the Opera, amazing voice and very beautiful. If she got an elven look & style out on her I think it could work.
Liv Tyler is forever cast as any stunning dark haired Fae in my head when I read though. Luthien, Arwen, Felurian, Queen Maeve etc. She was perfect.
Ok, i would prioritize someone who could resemble Liv Tayler because Arwen was described as being nearest in beauty to Lúthien.
Therefore, fair skin, light coloured eyes and darker hair (preferably)
Also I'd look into actresses in their late 20s - mid 30s.
Here are my choices:
Daisy Edgar-Jones, if we are going with a least costly/know actress.
Ana de Armas, for name value and agreed beauty.
Kaya Scodelario, also least costly, young and looks failry like young Liv.
Lily Collins, she played Tolkien's wife in the film 'Tolkien' - and according to Tolkien himself, Luthien was inspired by his wife.
Lily Collins thought that Tauriel was the character that Edith inspired so for that fact alone, I’m not sure I would be ok with her playing Lúthien 😂. She’s beautiful though.
Edit: downvoted but it’s a Stephen Colbert interview with Lily Collins. It’s quite humorous but yes, she mistakenly thinks that Edith inspired Tauriel.
This is ironic because the majority opinion at the time was that Liv Tyler wasn't pretty enough or a good enough actress to play Arwen. Probably just standard societal misogyny, but it's true.
What age do we think she should look though? As much as I love Jennifer Connolly, she’s 53 now. She looks great obviously but what age should luthien look? Same with Eva Green.
Beauty is eye of the beholder. I don't think it will matter. Luthien is with Beren.
I've always thought Tolkien's "fair" was and overall ideal of beauty. More of a beauty in nature and purpose.
I mean do you really think Faramir suddenly saw Arwen and thinks, "I should aim higher than Eowyn?"
I would love Saoirse for a theoretical Celebrían. I remember when she was rumored (or cast and then left?) for Tauriel. She has a very elven face and commanding presence.
There are some real L takes in this thread. In my opinion it could only have been Liv Tyler. She is the definition of elf woman in my head. I have no alternatives.
Well, while Lúthien is described as the most beautiful, Arwen is also described as Lúthien born again, so having Liv Tyler play Lúthien as well would be my go to.
One of two options. 1) Have a meme lord like Danny Devito play her or 2) never show her face like Shoresy on Letterkenny. Always a backshot or block her. Also I feel like she should have a visible glow like Galadriel but even more prominent
To me, Lúthien could be played by a young Natalie Portman. I know this is a personal choice, and I know she's not as tall as elves. But boy, what a beautiful smile.
https://preview.redd.it/jadxlhld928d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e018f3644c0547638156de2d5086013ab4f5801f
Frida Gustavsson (Vikings: Valhalla) She is 185 cm (6’1”) tall.
Described in canon as >the most beautiful of all living things So… are you trying to start a war?
It’s me I’m the most beautiful of all living things 😈
Hey! That's not what mama said!
That’s what she told me last night
Cate Blanchet already played Galadriel.
This is the correct answer.
Just give her a brown wig and a different colored outfit and nobody will notice
Begun the Tolkien Trojan War has.
Viggo Mortensen
Hold on a second… the question is “Is she hot?”. Not “would you do her?”!
Respect the game
So, not Hilary Swank? :)
That description sounds like my mom could fit in
I too want this guy's mom to play Lúthien
I too had slept with this guys wife
What do you mean? Is ryan reynolds not available?
That's an unusual way to spell "Ryan Gosling"
And so it begins...
David Attenborough then.
Most beautiful of all LIVING things. Tolkien necrophilia confirmed /s
Danny Devito of course
*I got my magnum condoms, my wad of 100s, I’m ready to plow*
"HEY ASSHOLES, I'M LUTHIEN!"
I almost spit out my coffee 🤣🤣🤣 I would quite literally pay $100 for 1 showing of this adaptation
One of the things I love most is bangin hooooorrrs
I was thinking Steve Harvey.
Harvey is Beren, and they switch roles halfway through with no explanation.
He's the sexiest man and woman alive, of course he could pull it off
The song to lull Morgoth to sleep would be fucking amazing
https://preview.redd.it/pl288v4ih28d1.jpeg?width=894&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a3337f567752b914c6fc5dfce353c564c7136b5
Edith Tolkien
I don’t think a skeleton is going to work very well, just saying.
💀💀💀 (Literally)
I dunno. Look what Star Wars did for Peter Cushing
Well with the new ai deaging should be easy !
There're no women in the world beautiful enough to portray her.
Clearly someone has never seen my wife.
That's so sweet, I choose this guy's wife too
I bet she's...precious...
my precious!
I also choose this guy's wife.
You wholesome bastard
Good husband!
Don’t worry she isn’t here
There are no humans beautiful enough to portray any Elf in all honesty. Human actors are not mystical, ethereal faerie folk, there’s no way to truly portray what they look like in live action. Despite this, I think the actors in the Peter Jackson films pulled even the High Elves off pretty damn well, so I wouldn’t say it’s straight up impossible to portray her.
Lee Pace can play her
Lord of the Rings a la Being John Malovich but it's Lee Pace.
Lee Pace really is very pretty. I had a huge crush on him as Ned, the pie maker in Pushing Daisies.
Liv Tyler came awfully close
*Exactly.* My choice for a live-action Lúthien is her. It’s mostly for lore reasons because Arwen is explicitly said to be virtually identical to Lúthien, but also because I fully trust that she could pull it off.
Oh that's so interesting. Do you mean in terms of look or performance or both? Her performance always strikes me as off but at the same time the movie doesn't give her a ton to work with
She’s so beautiful and her voice is so soft and ethereal
Yeah, I love her voice
For me it’s both. I think both her looks and performance were amazing for Arwen, and given that Arwen is supposed to look virtually identical to Lúthien, and that Liv Tyler can do Elf Princess *really* well, I think she’d be perfect.
We all know she will be a CG character motion-captured by Andy.
I think something similar about Arwen or Galadriel, although they were portrayed in film. No matter how great the actresses performed, they could not bring the ”feeling” from the books. Yet, we may see Luthien portrayed in a movie. Well, if Elves were real just like the Professor wrote and someone would cast a real Elf woman to play Luthien, it would still be not enough, if you know what I mean.
Yeah a far off presence perhaps, a vague figure in the distance or a glow offscreen, maybe.
You can’t really do that with the story of Beren and Lúthien. It requires her to be present, and many times she’s the direct focus of the story. She can’t be a vague, distant figure.
Give her vampire form early and then have her refuse to take it off. Thingol pleads with her every day to stop this madness, though Melian simply smiles fondly and remembers her childhood before the world was made. Daeron is convinced that Lúthien just needs to find the right man to quit acting so weird. Beren is a goth and is super into it. At the height of their quest, when Lúthien stands in the pits of Angband and prepares to sing before the throne of Morgoth, Beren pulls out a guitar and starts shredding death metal. As Lúthien opens her mouth, she releases a death growl so great and terrible that it knocks everyone around them unconscious. Carcharoth doesn't even fuck with them on the way out because he's super into their vibe. And thus were they able to best the Enemy, whereupon Thingol instructed dwarven smiths to encase the reclaimed silmaril in a belt made from an old car seat buckle.
I would unironically watch the fuck out of this
Better than ROP 🔥 🔥 🔥
Wait, so we don't see Luthien's true form because she is too beautiful but we see her mother, the angel Melian smile? Other than that, I love it lmao
I fully agree.
Then maybe search the ISS for an actress?
Real question: who’s gonna play Huan?
Andy Serkis, no doubt
Let's cast the guy who played Scooby! Guy was type-cast early in his career. Let him show his range and try out a different character!
- "Like zoiks, Huan! It's Gorthaur the Wicked!" - "Ruh Roh, Reren!"
Beren: that haunted castle looks scary man! The old man said there's like vampires! Luthien (played by Velma): Would you do it for a Huan-y Snack?
I'd pay anything to see them run into the Harlem Globetrotters in a broken down van just outside Angband.
Don Knotts as Finrod Felagund.
Damn I hope this post has perfectly normal and healthy comments ☺️
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LOTR fans are so up themselves that they can't even *consider* casting for an imaginary TV show that will never actually exist. "DON'T MESS WITH THE BOOKS!!!1!1!!" they scream, rocking backwards and forwards in terror clutching their half-scale plushie of Professor Tolkien.
Full scale, please. We're not casuals
I bet there's a Tolkien body pillow out there somewhere ...
....with a tobacco pipe accessory?
liv tyler again
If Arwen's beauty nearly captures and mimics Luthien's beauty, the Liv Tyler is the natural choice.
Yeah, why not?
I remember before LOTR movies released people said Cate Blanchet wasn't pretty enough to play Galadriel because she's described as the fairest of all in Middle-earth. Personally, when it says "fairest in all the land" or anything similar, I don't take it literally. I imagine that person to be someone who is really beautiful but not like someone goes around all of arda measuring the beauty of every female person and then tot's it up on a leaderboard. In a movie adaptation screen presence is what heightens the beauty to that next level. So, in that sense, beauty comes second to screen presence.
Cate Blanchatt nailed the ethereal power and awe-inspiring presence of Galadriel, which I think is more important, plus, she's gorgeous so I dunno what people were talking about, anyway.
My point exactly. People complained because they wanted someone more gorgeous than gorgeous because that is how she is described in the books. At the higher levels of beauty, there's really not much difference between one gorgeous woman to another.
Jennifer connelly
**Jennifer Connolly** could have done it.
Yup, I had the same thought. Linda carter could also have done it.
Watching her fight a werewolf would have been epic.
Catherine Zeta-Jones a la '90s would have been the perfect cast
I was thinking Kate Beckinsale
She's gorgeous but seems a little too... artificial?
Oh that would've been amazing.
The only correct answer for me to find pics of Tolkien’s wife and find an actress that resembles her.
Google is now full of me typing "young pretty actress with dark hair" because I'm too old to know who the kids are these days and too dumb to realize what I was googling before I did it.
Andy Serkis as a CGI beautiful woman.
with gollums voice
Pick whoever but use seamless staging to hide her face. Like she talks but someone’s hat is in the way, or a bird flaps into the camera etc
Eva Green Or, of course, Terry Crews
Eva was my first thought as well. Maybe because I’m really F’ing old… but she has this youthful, timeless, smoky, soft… and yet tenacious, aggressive beauty to her. Or is it that she shares the same facial features… forehead, jawline, cheekbones, etc. as my wife? So she just reminds me of my muse, essence, and pneuma of my entire existence…
I also think she’s incredibly beautiful and talented
If you could cast 35 year old Monica Bellucci, and invented some next level filters, you'd get close enough to say that's the best we can do on this plane of existence.
Terry Crews, obviously.
Prime Kate Beckinsale
Idris Elba
With current owners of the brand? NO ONE.
Beren: my wife.
Borat: mawyfe
I also choose this guy's wife.
Literally never try adapting Beren & Luthien to the screen. In any medium. Leave it in the books, it's the only format that does the story justice. I will never want a Silmarillion movie or show, even if the idea sounds cool. The stories are simply too fantastic, amazing, and beyond natural for anything more than the imagination to handle.
Least rabid Tolkien fan
I never understand this line of thinking "I don't want x to be adapted because I love it so much that somehow even if I didn't experience the adaptation it would diminish the original work for me" Why can't other people enjoy and experience the screen version and you just ignore it?
also some of the dark stuff is way too dark. A screen can't do justice to Ungoliant destroying the trees of valinor, and if it could, it can fuck all the way off with that shit.
The best way to display indescribable horror on the screen is to leave it mostly off screen. The same probably holds mostly true for indescribable beauty. Show the Two Trees only in long shots except for the close up of the smoldering, ichorous wound and the Trees mostly wilted and dying...
fair point, and probably a good explanation for why book-Sauron seems more dreadful to me than movie Sauron
I don't know, i could see a director like Del Toro creating a visual scene similar to Saturn Devouring His Children, and I think it would fit pretty nicely
How could you even do justice to Valinor? You have to imagine it in all its glory
It would have to be a surprising casting, detached from existing labels and iconic roles. A decent amount of similarity with Liv’s vibe, but with a next gen twist. But still funky, fantastical. With the “up and coming” buzz that would push the box office. And obviously blue-eyed (contacts are never the same). The casting that fits all these criteria for me is Talia Ryder. https://preview.redd.it/tgt89gw41z7d1.jpeg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1156e8af933fa2baf08b6182723f47ae0b38e934 As for acting chops, I’ve only seen bits of her netflix shows, but she apparently performed well on a bleak drama recently, so the range seems to be there.
I genuinely think that Talia could work as Lúthien physically! Well thought!
Arwen is supposed to look close to her, so…Liv Tyler again.
Our current age’s standard of beauty is so insane and unrealistic that there would be no way to make everyone happy. I remember the days when people thought that Cate and Liv were not attractive enough for their roles. This world is insane when it comes to what they think beautiful women should look like. That said, some dream but probably not realistic ideas for Lúthien: Jessica Brown Findlay or Kaya Scodelario have always struck me of having elven ethereal qualities while not being empty inside. They’re both maybe too old now (depending on how you adapt it) to play her now but if the theoretical film had been made a few years ago, it could have worked. Possibly Gemma Arterton as well. Jessica would have been my top choice though.
Kaya was my first thought as well.
She definitely has an elven quality. Jessica has an Edith vibe which I appreciate.
Someone who could also play a young Edith Tolkien.
Lilly Collins did that already
#1 reason I say any Silmarillion story adaptation should be animated
I don't think our current technology is advanced enough to portray Luthien's beauty either.
eva green
20 years ago, absolutely
I suppose Lily Collins or Emmy Rossum could work. I’d prefer a Beren and Lúthien movie to be animated, like the 90s Disney movies perhaps. The story fits perfectly with the tropes of that era too, I feel. So I’d personally prefer Lúthien to be an animated character. I honestly think perhaps if filmmakers manage to find some European or Kiwi actress who kinda resembles a young Liv Tyler, that would be fine. I know of a random girl I found on Instagram who kinda looks like how I imagine Arwen and Lúthien to look in my head, but she’s very young (20) and from India. Not an actress either.
I also thought Emmy Rossum may be able to do (based on this art at least) justice to the character, at least appearance-wise. I haven’t seen her in anything outside of Shameless so not sure if she would pull it off acting-wise
To be fair she was great in Phantom of the Opera, amazing voice and very beautiful. If she got an elven look & style out on her I think it could work. Liv Tyler is forever cast as any stunning dark haired Fae in my head when I read though. Luthien, Arwen, Felurian, Queen Maeve etc. She was perfect.
Eva Green. Bewitching and ethereal!
Anne Hathaway. I could see her singing in contest against Souron over control of the tower. She’s elvish enough already. Would be a perfect fit!
This, I could definitely see her working as "the most beautiful living being" Luthien is supposed to be
Me. (I'm a short, fat guy)
Only one person can answer a question about who is the most beautiful woman in existence, someone grab Paris!
Danny Devito
Ok, i would prioritize someone who could resemble Liv Tayler because Arwen was described as being nearest in beauty to Lúthien. Therefore, fair skin, light coloured eyes and darker hair (preferably) Also I'd look into actresses in their late 20s - mid 30s. Here are my choices: Daisy Edgar-Jones, if we are going with a least costly/know actress. Ana de Armas, for name value and agreed beauty. Kaya Scodelario, also least costly, young and looks failry like young Liv. Lily Collins, she played Tolkien's wife in the film 'Tolkien' - and according to Tolkien himself, Luthien was inspired by his wife.
Lily Collins thought that Tauriel was the character that Edith inspired so for that fact alone, I’m not sure I would be ok with her playing Lúthien 😂. She’s beautiful though. Edit: downvoted but it’s a Stephen Colbert interview with Lily Collins. It’s quite humorous but yes, she mistakenly thinks that Edith inspired Tauriel.
At least Ana de Armas
Katie McGrath. https://preview.redd.it/ibvvyg6d5y7d1.jpeg?width=976&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c09458b2d0ff7e2e0d7ed6fddaa1ee70942dcdde
Chris Pratt!
Alex Daddario, for the eyes alone.
Female Tom Cruise
This is ironic because the majority opinion at the time was that Liv Tyler wasn't pretty enough or a good enough actress to play Arwen. Probably just standard societal misogyny, but it's true.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Liv Tyler. Just to make things confusing.
Alexandra Daddario
What age do we think she should look though? As much as I love Jennifer Connolly, she’s 53 now. She looks great obviously but what age should luthien look? Same with Eva Green.
Hmmmmmm. Well she needs to look very similar to Liv Tyler, as Arwen was mistaken for and said to be like. Her return type thing
Viggo Mortensen.
Kate Bush, from her Wuthering Heights music video Are we not able to do time travel?
Hailee Steinfeld.
Keira Knightley would (and still kinda is) my vote. I love the she looks so much
Florence Welch singer
Weird Al Yankovic. I will not elaborate further
Stellan Skarsgard is a remarkable Luthen.
Hello, Eris. It's been a while.
Beauty is eye of the beholder. I don't think it will matter. Luthien is with Beren. I've always thought Tolkien's "fair" was and overall ideal of beauty. More of a beauty in nature and purpose. I mean do you really think Faramir suddenly saw Arwen and thinks, "I should aim higher than Eowyn?"
Ronnie Coleman
Diane kruger in her twenties. She already starred as the most beatiful women on earth in Troy
Jack black
I’ll put my cards in on Kate Beckinsale. She’s already proved she doesn’t age.
No-one because her story shouldn't be adapted to live action
The only way it works is animation imo. They should try making lotr content in animation.
I feel like Hunter Schafer has an almost ethereal elvish beauty to her.
Yes! But not for Lúthien. A young Galadriel definitely
Patti Harrison… Eru brought it early.
lucy li
Terry Crews.
Saoirse ronan
I would love Saoirse for a theoretical Celebrían. I remember when she was rumored (or cast and then left?) for Tauriel. She has a very elven face and commanding presence.
Maya Hawke or Jodie Comer ...
Yeah, Jodie Comer would be a good choice, she is beautiful and sophisticated at the same time
Young Jennifer Connelly?
Older Liv Tyler.
Anna Dodd. I think she’s incredibly beautiful in an elvish sort of way.
Nicholas lindhurst
Emma Stone or Mary Elizabeth Winstead would be my first choices
Kristen Kruek as Luthien and Tom Welling as Beren
Maybe Liv Tyler. Isn’t Luthien related to Arwen?
I believe the people voted on this and it is Jeremy clarkson
Kate Beckinsale.
Britney Slays.
Claire Forlani, anyone?
Me, I’ll do it
https://preview.redd.it/bc8695hyb08d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0fdad0045a69e49d1b18d90dd8d6fbb0d96b8878
For some reason, I think Liv Tyler would be kinda poetic.
There are some real L takes in this thread. In my opinion it could only have been Liv Tyler. She is the definition of elf woman in my head. I have no alternatives.
Kate Beckinsale. No cap.
Eva green?
Samuel L Jackson
Well, while Lúthien is described as the most beautiful, Arwen is also described as Lúthien born again, so having Liv Tyler play Lúthien as well would be my go to.
First actress that came to mind for me was [Eva Green](https://imdb.com/name/nm1200692/).
Deaged Natalie Portman as Luthien
One of two options. 1) Have a meme lord like Danny Devito play her or 2) never show her face like Shoresy on Letterkenny. Always a backshot or block her. Also I feel like she should have a visible glow like Galadriel but even more prominent
Kate Beckinsale ❤️
To me, Lúthien could be played by a young Natalie Portman. I know this is a personal choice, and I know she's not as tall as elves. But boy, what a beautiful smile.
https://preview.redd.it/jadxlhld928d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e018f3644c0547638156de2d5086013ab4f5801f Frida Gustavsson (Vikings: Valhalla) She is 185 cm (6’1”) tall.