The Fall of Gondolin
Literary work by J. R. R. Tolkien / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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J. R. R. Tolkien's The Fall of Gondolin is one of the stories which formed the basis for a section in his posthumously-published work The Silmarillion, with a version later appearing in The Book of Lost Tales. In the narrative, Gondolin was founded by King Turgon in the First Age; the city was carefully hidden, enduring for centuries before being betrayed and destroyed.
Editor | Christopher Tolkien |
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Author | J. R. R. Tolkien |
Illustrator | Alan Lee |
Cover artist | Alan Lee |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Subject | Tolkien's legendarium |
Genre | High fantasy |
Published | 2018 |
Publisher | HarperCollins Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Pages | 304[1] |
ISBN | 978-0008302757 |
Preceded by | Beren and Lúthien |
A stand-alone, book-length version of the story edited by Christopher Tolkien was published in 2018.[1][2] The Fall of Gondolin is one of three stories from the First Age of Middle-earth that was published as a stand-alone book: the other two are Beren and Lúthien and The Children of Húrin.