Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts and presented for
the first time as a standalone work, the epic tale of The Fall of
Gondolin will reunite 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. 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 Manwe,
chief of the Valar. 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 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 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 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, 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
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 'the first real
story of this imaginary world' and, together with Beren and Luthien
and The Children of Hurin, he regarded it as one of the three
'Great Tales' of the Elder Days.
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