The Fall Of Gondolin
As morgoth intended the destruction of the majority of the noldor peoples was nearly complete though a handful of survivors managed to escape.
The fall of gondolin. The fall of gondolin was the battle between the forces of gondolin under king turgon and morgoth after maeglin had betrayed the city s hidden location to the enemy. A vast and fitting last look at middle earth readers have to do plenty of work themselves but it is thoroughly repaid jrr tolkien s last book is a. But the way it is collected here and edited by christopher tolkien makes is much coherent. In the words of j r r.
It also relates the flight of the fugitives to the havens of sirion the. The fall of gondolin. The fall of gondolin tells of the founding of the city. The fall of gondolin is one of the original lost tales which formed the basis for a section in his later work the silmarillion.
Tolkien it was the first real story of this imaginary world and together with beren and lúthien and the children of húrin he regarded it as one of the three great tales of the elder. The man tuor is sent to gondolin by the god ulmo where he falls in love with the king turgon. The fall of gondolin tells of the downfall of last enclave of noldoli deep elves who escaped melko after the battle of unnubmered tears. Tolkien s original writings and timothy west reading the editorial.
Christopher tolkien has taken on the monumental task of trying to piece together the fragments of a multitude of versions pertaining to gondolin and tuor hero who s line will yield both elrond of rivendell and elros the king of númenor. The fall of gondolin or the siege of gondolin was a dramatic battle in which the hidden city of gondolin was destroyed after its location was betrayed to morgoth by maeglin. Following his presentation of beren and lúthien christopher tolkien has used the same history in sequence mode in the writing of this edition of the fall of gondolin. Gondolin was described as this now the streets of gondolin were paved with stone and wide kerbed with marble and fair houses and courts amid gardens of bright flowers were set about the ways and many towers of great slenderness and beauty builded of white marble and carved most marvelously rose to the heaven.
So while this book is not a new tale which is being published for the first time here. The story tells of the ancient hidden city of gondolin a noldorin stronghold in defiance of morgoth. Presented for the first time as a stand alone work the epic tale of the fall of gondolin reunites fans of the hobbit and the lord of the rings with elves and men balrogs dragons and orcs and the rich landscape and creatures unique to tolkien s middle earth. Jrr tolkien the fall of gondolin review.
The fall of gondolin is a book edited by christopher tolkien published on 30 august 2018 it brings together several existing passages of work into one volume along with commentary from christopher. Of the arrival there of tuor a prince of men. Of the betrayal of the city to morgoth by the king s nephew maeglin. Gondolin was a secret city of elves in the first age of middle earth.