The Fall of Gondolin. Edited by Christopher Tolkien with illustrations by Alan Lee.

Tolkien, J. R. R.

Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, 2018

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A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. 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: he is called the Lord of Waters, of all seas, lakes, and rivers under the sky. But he works in secret in Middle-earth to support the Noldor, the kindred of the Elves among whom were numbered Húrin and Túrin Turambar. Following his presentation of Beren and Lúthien Christopher Tolkien has used the same history in sequence mode in the writing of this edition of The Fall of Gondolin. In the words of J.R.R. Tolkien, it was the first real story of this imaginary world and, together with Beren and Lúthien and The Children of Húrin, he regarded it as one of the three Great Tales of the Elder Days.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Fall of Gondolin. Edited by Christopher Tolkien with illustrations by Alan Lee.
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston
• Publication Date: 2018
• Edition: First Printing of the First US Edition.
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