little did it ease the grief of luthien to learn that the lord of nogrod was slain and many dwarves beside ; but it is said and sung that luthien wearing that necklace and that immortal jewel was the vision of greatest beauty and glory that has ever been outside the realm of valinor ; and for a little while the land of the dead that live became like a vision of the land of the valar , and no place has been since so fair , so fruitful , or so filled with light .