In vol. 5 of The History of Middle-earth, Chritopher Tolkien writes:

[A]t the time when he turned again to the Lay of Leithian (see III. 330), The Lord of the Rings being finished but its publication very doubtful, he embarked also once more on a prose 'saga' of Beren and Luthien. This is a substantial text, though the story goes no further than the betrayal by Dairon to Thingol of Beren's presence in Doriath, and it is so closely based on the rewritten form of the Lay as to read in places almost as a prose paraphrase of the verse. It was written on the verso pages of the text AB 2 of the Annals of Beleriand, and was not known to me when The Silmarillion was prepared for publication.

• Is this version accessible to the public?
• Did CT explain why he chose not to include it in The History of Middle-earth, or later on in the Beren and Lúthien book?
• Does the Tolkien Estate plan to include it in some further publication in the future?

(These questions seem related enough to me to be put together, and I chose the first one for the title).

In vol. 5 of The History of Middle-earth, Christopher Tolkien writes:

[A]t the time when he turned again to the Lay of Leithian (see III. 330), The Lord of the Rings being finished but its publication very doubtful, he embarked also once more on a prose 'saga' of Beren and Luthien. This is a substantial text, though the story goes no further than the betrayal by Dairon to Thingol of Beren's presence in Doriath, and it is so closely based on the rewritten form of the Lay as to read in places almost as a prose paraphrase of the verse. It was written on the verso pages of the text AB 2 of the Annals of Beleriand, and was not known to me when The Silmarillion was prepared for publication.

• Is this version accessible to the public?
• Did CT explain why he chose not to include it in The History of Middle-earth, or later on in the Beren and Lúthien book?
• Does the Tolkien Estate plan to include it in some further publication in the future?

(These questions seem related enough to me to be put together, and I chose the first one for the title).

In vol. 5 of The History of Middle-earth, Chritopher Tolkien writes:

[A]t the time when he turned again to the Lay of Leithian (see III. 330), The Lord of the Rings being finished but its publication very doubtful, he embarked also once more on a prose 'saga' of Beren and Luthien. This is a substantial text, though the story goes no further than the betrayal by Dairon to Thingol of Beren's presence in Doriath, and it is so closely based on the rewritten form of the Lay as to read in places almost as a prose paraphrase of the verse. It was written on the verso pages of the text AB 2 of the Annals of Beleriand, and was not known to me when The Silmarillion was prepared for publication.

• Is this version accessible to the public?
• Did CT explain why he chose not to include it in The History of Middle-earth?
• Does the Tolkien Estate plan to include it in some further publication in the future?

(These questions seem related enough to me to be put together, and I chose the first one for the title).

In vol. 5 of The History of Middle-earth, Chritopher Tolkien writes:

[A]t the time when he turned again to the Lay of Leithian (see III. 330), The Lord of the Rings being finished but its publication very doubtful, he embarked also once more on a prose 'saga' of Beren and Luthien. This is a substantial text, though the story goes no further than the betrayal by Dairon to Thingol of Beren's presence in Doriath, and it is so closely based on the rewritten form of the Lay as to read in places almost as a prose paraphrase of the verse. It was written on the verso pages of the text AB 2 of the Annals of Beleriand, and was not known to me when The Silmarillion was prepared for publication.

• Is this version accessible to the public?
• Did CT explain why he chose not to include it in The History of Middle-earth, or later on in the Beren and Lúthien book?
• Does the Tolkien Estate plan to include it in some further publication in the future?

(These questions seem related enough to me to be put together, and I chose the first one for the title).