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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 Manwë, 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 túrin, the instrument of Ulmo's designs. 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. After a minutely observed account of the fall of Gondolin, the tale ends with the escape of tuor 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.
