What is Written on Tolkien’s Grave?

The deepest longing of every human heart is to know who you really are. When someone sees who I really am and gives me this name, I grow wings and fly.

Tolkien and his wife Edith are buried side by side, and their shared gravestone says: Beren and Luthien, as per Tolkien’s instruction. Tolkien saw himself as Beren, and his wife as Luthien. His whole life was the incarnation and overflow of this name.

But why?

This name stirred something in him and made him alive. It woke him from sleep. It gave him mean…