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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