Gondolin is a secret city of Elves in the First Age of Middle-earth, and the greatest of their cities in Beleriand. The story of the Fall of Gondolin...
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J. R. R. Tolkien's The Fall of Gondolin is a 2018 book of fantasy fiction by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by his son Christopher. The story is one of what...
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thousand is mentioned in the Quenta Silmarillion, while at the storming of Gondolin Balrogs in the hundreds ride on the backs of the Dragons. They are roughly...
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Gondolin Cave is a fossiliferous dolomitic paleocave system in the Northwest Province, South Africa. The paleocave formed in the Eccles Formation dolomites...
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Kingdom Aragorn Elessar. Both characters play a pivotal role in The Fall of Gondolin, one of Tolkien's earliest stories; it formed the basis for a section in...
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legendarium in 1916–17, beginning with the initial draft of The Fall of Gondolin. His name indicates his hair as a mark of his distinction, as the Noldor...
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tale of the fall of Gondolin. Christopher Garbowski comments that when Húrin cries aloud, revealing the hidden entrance to Gondolin, the effect is quite...
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Silmarillion, The Children of Húrin, Beren and Lúthien, and The Fall of Gondolin. Melkor is the most powerful of the Valar but he turns to darkness and...
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Heraldry of Middle-earth (section Houses of Gondolin)
phases in his use of heraldry; his early account of the Elvish heraldry of Gondolin in The Book of Lost Tales corresponds broadly to heraldic tradition in...
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relationship in The Fall of Gondolin, the first story in his legendarium to be written. In this story, the Elves of Gondolin use the mail armour, swords...
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the hidden Elvish city of Gondolin. He was raised in Gondolin; when he was seven years old, he escaped the sacking of Gondolin with his parents. Eärendil...
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within their realms in the land of Beleriand, such as Nargothrond and Gondolin. When the Noldor are in Valinor they speak Quenya; in Middle-earth they...
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The Lays of Beleriand (redirect from Lay of the Fall of Gondolin)
Noldoli from Valinor, The Lay of Eärendel, and The Lay of the Fall of Gondolin. The first versions of the long lays fit chronologically in with Tolkien's...
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Minas Tirith (section Contrast with Gondolin)
Aragorn in the enemy's ships – with the unmitigated disasters of the Fall of Gondolin and the other Elvish cities of Beleriand in The Silmarillion. She notes...
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one, the realm of Doriath as well as the Noldor kingdoms Nargothrond and Gondolin fall to assaults, assisted by betrayals and disputes among Elves, Men,...
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Fall of Gondolin published". Tolkien Society. Archived from the original on 4 December 2019. Flood, Alison (10 April 2018). "The Fall of Gondolin, 'new'...
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Unfinished Tales (redirect from Of Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin)
Middle-earth. "Of Tuor and his Coming to Gondolin", an account of the central character of The Fall of Gondolin "Narn i Hîn Húrin (The Tale of the Children...
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which Orcs existed before the wakening of the Elves, as in The Fall of Gondolin. A notable exception was Sauron's emissary, the Mouth of Sauron. Hammond...
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hidden kingdom of Gondolin. He married Idril, daughter of Turgon, Lord of Gondolin (the second union between Elves and Men). When Gondolin fell, betrayed...
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It, along with Beren and Lúthien, published in 2017, and The Fall of Gondolin, published in 2018, constituted what J. R. R. Tolkien called the three...
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became the High King of the Noldor-in-Exile in Beleriand after the fall of Gondolin and the death of the previous High King, Turgon. After the War of Wrath...
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Tolkien and the classical world (section Gondolin-Troy)
the Atlantis-like lost island kingdom of Númenor; the Troy-like fall of Gondolin; the Rome-like stone city of Minas Tirith in Gondor; magical rings with...
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Gimli with him. The name Legolas Greenleaf first appeared in "The Fall of Gondolin", one of the "Lost Tales", circa 1917. The character, who guides survivors...
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Tolkien The History of Middle-earth The Children of Húrin The History of The Hobbit Beren and Lúthien The Fall of Gondolin The Nature of Middle-earth...
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the actions of Tuor, setting him on the path to find the hidden city of Gondolin. At the end of the First Age, the Valar send forth a great host of Maiar...
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merged with the Noldor who returned to Middle-earth, especially those of Gondolin. Those who reached Aman were called Amanyar Teleri; they were also called...
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of all birds that have ever been". When Turgon built the Hidden City of Gondolin, the eagles of Thorondor became his allies, bringing him news and keeping...
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richest sites for hominin fossils in the world, as well as Swartkrans, Gondolin Cave, Kromdraai, Cooper's Cave and Malapa. Raymond Dart identified the...
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recounts how Turgon, in view of inevitable defeat, builds the city of Gondolin, aided by Ulmo ("The Lord of Water"). In "Face the Truth", Fingolfin reflects...
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of the great tales of the legendarium: Beren and Lúthien, The Fall of Gondolin, and The Children of Húrin." She notes too that the usage was clearly intentional...
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