Silm thoughts: more things about Beren and Luthien than you may want to know

Okay, so this is what happens when you try to ground things in the Silmarillion in reality, and I really should have stopped myself from trying to apply reality to the tale of Beren and Luthien, but here it is anyway.

( The Silm is hardly grounded in solid facts at the best of times, but this was bugging me )