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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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