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In spite of Tolkien, this seems better as a male name to me. That's probably because my first experience of it was in a different set of fantasy novels by the author R. A. Salvatore where the hero is named Luthien and the middle book of the trilogy is called Luthien's Gamble. This is in spite of the fact that I have never read that book, because I thought the first book in the trilogy was so bad that I never even finished that one! But in spite of how awful a writer Salvatore was, he managed to cement Luthien in my mind as a male name. :) (And I also probably associate it with Luther and Lucien, which are traditionally masculine.)