It is the first traceable story of his Middle-earth legendarium that he wrote down on paper. Tolkien began writing the story that would become The Fall of Gondolin in 1917 in an army barracks on the back of a sheet of military marching music. Gothmog, High Captain of Angband, at the storming of Gondolin. 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. 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.Ī stand-alone, book-length version of the story edited by Christopher Tolkien was published in 2018. 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.
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