The Fall Of Gondolin
The sheer beauty of tolkien s writing.
The fall of gondolin. The sheer beauty of tolkien s writing. One aspect remains apparent throughout. A stand alone book length version of the story was published in 2018. There is morgoth of the uttermost evil unseen in this story but ruling over a vast military power from his fortress of angband.
Published on 30 august 2018 it brings together several existing passages of work into one volume along with commentary from christopher. 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. In the tale of the fall of gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. The fall of gondolin consists of a number of different versions of the tale written by tolkien at various periods.
Tolkien s the fall of gondolin is one of the stories in the book of lost tales which formed the basis for a section in his later work the silmarillion. There are inconsistencies in some of the names and inevitably characters and events appear vanish sometimes reappear or are heavily altered. The fall of gondolin consists of a number of different versions of the tale written by tolkien at various periods. This battle took the lives of most of the gondolindrim and of turgon and his captains.