Luthien certainly died first - a year or so after Beren gets Carcharoth'd, and significant amounts of time before the Turin story. A good way to remember this is to realise that the mothers of both Turin and Tuor were Beren's cousins - which makes the Two Ts a generation (~25 years) younger than Beren, and therefore puts their stories after his.

But of course, Beren and Luthien got better, and hung around in Ossiriand for... well, quite some time. We know that they were still alive after the Fall of Nargothrond (and thus the death of Finduilas): when the Dwarves slew Thingol, it was Beren who ambushed them in turn, and reclaimed the Nauglamir - taken from the Sack of Nargothrond - for Luthien.

So, which death is the story talking about? I think it has to be the first, for two reasons: Luthien was apparently distraught over Beren's death when Ulmo put her to sleep, which matches very nicely to her situation after his first death. And, much though I hate remembering this, it's strongly implied that wearing the Silmaril actually shortened Luthien's life - which means she would have probably died first.

Of course, if it was the first death, that means Dior was never born, so neither was Elwing... so neither were Elrond and Elros, the ultimate ancestor of Aragorn... and Earendil never received the Silmaril, so there is no Evening And Morning Star... and no-one would have been able to sail West, so Beleriand still exists, albeit overrun by Orcs. The few remaining Noldor and Sindar would presumably have given up on the western part of the continent eventually, retreated over the Ered Luin... then spent the next thousand years slowly retreating to the Misty Mountains... depending on how much trouble Morgoth had with the remnants of the Edain (no Numenor, remember!), there might be a 'Last Fortified House' at Imladris by the time the War of the Ring would have taken place... but honestly, I think the Free Peoples would have been pushed far east of Mirkwood by then. Perhaps the Lonely Mountain could mark their westernmost outpost...?

hS

I think an Istari cooking show would just be funny just by the concept. What would they bake? Because if it's standard cooking show fare, the disparity would make it even better.

Now I have a mental image of Saruman wearing an apron instead of his robes, pulling a lasagna out of a modern-style oven, and it is great.
What would the other Istari do, though? Maybe Radagast could have some kind of Bob Ross-style painting program. Painting happy little sled-bunnies.

It needs to diiiiiie. Preferably via club. I have some humorous squeaky mallets if you like, hS.

That fic briefly reminded me of my first attempt at LOTR fic... except I actually did do something with Luthien. Granted, I made her a Legolusting Tenth Walker, but I did something with her.

...I was thirteen and silly, okay? :P

As for me, MSTs tend to go a much more lax route than missions, so if you absolutely can't, I will try to can.

How to kill a badfic with nothing to charge for, sounds like a fun challenge.

...On the OTHER hand, you could also make an intel report of it and probably get the exact same thing done, without the "killing the fic without charges" issue. Either way'd be interesting.