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The Fall of Gondolin

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In the Tale of the Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers on the earth. There is Morgoth of the uttermost evil, unseen in this story but ruling

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In the Tale of the Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers on the earth. 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 Manwe, chief of the Valar.
Central to this enmity of the gods is the city of Gondolin, beautiful but undiscoverable. It was once 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, at the same time as the gods in Valinor in heated debate in large part refuse to intervene in reinforce of Ulmo’s desires and designs.
Into this world comes Tuor, cousin of Turin, 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 arresting moments in the history of Middle-earth the sea-god himself appears to him, rising out of the ocean in the course of a storm. In Gondolin he becomes great; he is wedded to Idril, Turgon’s daughter and their son is Earendel, 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 Tuor and Idril, with the child Earendel, having a look 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 Earendel, which Tolkien never wrote, but which is sketched out in this book from other sources.
Following his presentation of Beren and Luthien 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 once ‘the first real story of this imaginary world’ and, along with Beren and Luthien and the Children of Hurin, he regarded it as some of the three ‘Great Tales’ of the Elder Days.

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