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The Fall of Gondolin. J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien, Alan Lee
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- The Fall of Gondolin
- J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien, Alan Lee
- Page: 304
- Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
- ISBN: 9780358131458
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth of the uttermost evil, unseen in this story but ruling over a vast military power from his fortress of Angband. Deeply opposed to Morgoth is Ulmo, second in might only to Manwë, chief of the Valar: he is called the Lord of Waters, of all seas, lakes, and rivers under the sky. But he works in secret in Middle-earth to support the Noldor, the kindred of the Elves among whom were numbered Húrin and Túrin Turambar. 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 dwelt in Valinor, the land of the gods, rebelled against their rule and fled to Middle-earth. Turgon King of Gondolin is hated and feared above all his enemies by Morgoth, who seeks in vain to discover the marvellously hidden city, while the gods in Valinor in heated debate largely refuse to intervene in support of Ulmo’s desires and designs. Into this world comes Tuor, cousin of Túrin, the instrument of Ulmo’s designs. Guided unseen by him Tuor sets out from the land of his birth on the fearful journey to Gondolin, and in one of the most arresting moments in the history of Middle-earth the sea-god himself appears to him, rising out of the ocean in the midst of a storm. In Gondolin he becomes great; he is wedded to Idril, Turgon’s daughter, and their son is Eärendel, whose birth and profound importance in days to come is foreseen by Ulmo. At last comes the terrible ending. Morgoth learns through an act of supreme treachery all that he needs to mount a devastating attack on the city, with Balrogs and dragons and numberless Orcs. After a minutely observed account of the fall of Gondolin, the tale ends with the escape of Túrin and Idril, with the child Eärendel, looking back from a cleft in the mountains as they flee southward, at the blazing wreckage of their city. They were journeying into a new story, the Tale of Eärendel, which Tolkien never wrote, but which is sketched out in this book from other sources. 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. In the words of J.R.R. 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 Days.
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The Fall of Gondolin is for the serious reader of JRR Tolkien's mythology, but not one so serious that he is offended by the “Elvish” of the Peter
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For other namesakes, see Fall of Gondolin (disambiguation). 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. The seeds of Gondolin's fall were set some decades after
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The Fall of Gondolin follows last year's Beren and Lúthien, which appeared on the tenth anniversary of The Children of Húrin, which was
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The Fall of Gondolin is a book edited by Christopher Tolkien. Published on 30 August 2018, it brings together several existing passages of work
The Fall of Gondolin by J. R. R. Tolkien; Christopher Tolkien; Alan Lee
In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth of the uttermost evil, unseen in this story but ruling over a vast
JRR Tolkien, The Fall of Gondolin review: A vast and fitting last look
The new book contains material that is among the oldest ever produced by Tolkien. The story that makes up The Fall of Gondolin was first put
THE FALL OF GONDOLIN by J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien
this time with the tale of the secret city of Gondolin. Ulmo, the great sea god, visits a wanderer named Tuor and tells him his destiny: "O Tuor of
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