The Fall of Gondolin
By: J. R. R. Tolkien
Edited by: Christopher Tolkien
Published by: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date: 2018
Description
Evil Morgoth rules over a vast military power from his fortress of Angband. Deeply opposed to Morgoth is Ulmo, who is called the Lord of Waters. Central to this enmity of the gods is the city of Gondolin, beautiful but undiscoverable. It was built and peopled by Noldorin Elves who, when they dwelled in Valinor, the land of the gods, rebelled against their rule and fled to Middle-earth. Morgoth seeks in vain to discover the marvelously hidden city, while the gods in Valinor largely refuse to intervene in support of Ulmo, who desires to protect it.
Into this world comes Tuor, cousin of Turin. Guided unseen by Ulmo, Tuor journeys to Gondolin, where he becomes great; he is wedded to Idril, Turgon's daughter; and they h ave a son, Earendel. But there will come a terrible ending when Morgoth, through a supreme act of treachery, will mount a devastating attack on the city with Balrogs, dragons, and numberless Orcs. After the destruction, Tuor's son survives and lives into the next story, the Tale of Earendel, which Tolkien never wrote, but which is sketched out in this book from other sources.
Following Beren and Luthien, Christopher Tolkien has used the same "history in sequence" mode in the writing of The Fall of Gondolin. In the words of J. R. R. Tolkien, it was "the first real story of this imaginary world" and, together with Beren and Luthien and The Children of Hurin, it is one of the three "Great Tales" of the Elder Days.
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