In the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien, the "Fall of Gondolin" is the name of one of the original Lost Tales which formed the basis for a section in his later work, The Silmarillion. "The Fall of Gondolin" tells of the founding of the Elven city of Gondolin (built in secret by Turgon and his people), of the arrival of Tuor, a prince of the Edain, of the betrayal of the city to Morgoth by Turgon's nephew Maeglin, and of its subsequent destruction by Morgoth's armies.

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  • In the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien, the "Fall of Gondolin" is the name of one of the original Lost Tales which formed the basis for a section in his later work, The Silmarillion. "The Fall of Gondolin" tells of the founding of the Elven city of Gondolin (built in secret by Turgon and his people), of the arrival of Tuor, a prince of the Edain, of the betrayal of the city to Morgoth by Turgon's nephew Maeglin, and of its subsequent destruction by Morgoth's armies. It also relates the flight of the fugitives to the Havens of Sirion, the wedding of Tuor and Idril, as well as the childhood of Eärendil. 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. It is more or less the first traceable story he wrote down on paper about the Middle-earth legendarium. Tolkien was constantly revising his First Age stories; however, the narrative he wrote in 1917, published posthumously in the Book of Lost Tales, remains the only full account of the fall of the city. The narrative in The Silmarillion was the result of the editing by his son Christopher using that story (minus some elements all too obviously evocative of World War I warfare) and compressed versions from the different versions of the Annals and Quentas as various sources. The later Quenta Silmarillion, the main source for much of the published Silmarillion, stops before the beginning of the Tuor story. A partial later version of "The Fall of Gondolin" was published in the Unfinished Tales under the title "Of Tuor and his Coming to Gondolin". Originally titled "Of Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin", this narrative shows a great expansion of the earlier tale. Christopher Tolkien retitled the story before including it in Unfinished Tales, because it ends at the point of Tuor's arrival in Gondolin, never getting to the actual Fall. There is also an unfinished and (as of 2008) unpublished poem titled The Lay of the Fall of Gondolin of which a few verses are quoted in The Lays of Beleriand. In a mere 130 verses Tolkien reaches the point were Dragons attack the city; from this one can assume that, even if it had been finished, it would have been far shorter than the long poetic versions of The Lay of Leithian and Narn i Chîn Húrin.
  • Von Tuor und dem Fall von Gondolin ist eines der drei großen Epen des englischen Schriftstellers J. R. R. Tolkien, die im Ersten Zeitalter seiner fiktiven Welt Mittelerde spielen. Tolkien selbst stellt dar, dass sie die älteste der Geschichten Mittelerdes ist. Veröffentlicht wurden die verschiedenen Fassungen von seinem Sohn Christopher Tolkien.
  • La caída de Gondolin es un acontecimiento ficticio que tiene lugar dentro del legendarium creado por el escritor británico J. R. R. Tolkien y que es narrado en su novela póstuma El Silmarillion.
  • La Chute de Gondolin est un conte écrit en 1916-1917 par J.R.R. Tolkien. Il s'agit de son premier texte concernant la Terre du milieu. Écrit dans une langue volontairement archaïsante, il relate l'arrivée de Tuor, guidé par Voronwë, à Gondolin, la ville aux sept noms gouvernée par le roi Turgon, la trahison du secret de la ville par Meglin, le neveu du roi, la chute de la ville devant les armées de Morgoth après une résistance acharnée, et la fuite des rares survivants, menés par Tuor et son épouse Idril, la fille du roi. Au printemps 1920, Tolkien lut ce conte au Club d'Essais du collège d'Exeter. Il reçut un bon accueil. Tolkien rédigea par la suite une version abrégée du conte, destinée à être incluse dans la Quenta Silmarillion (1938). En 1951, après avoir terminé la rédaction du Seigneur des Anneaux, il rédigea une nouvelle version de l'histoire la chute de Gondolin, qui serait cohérente avec le reste des récits du Premier Âge (ceux-ci avaient subi des modifications importantes depuis 1917), mais il ne termina pas cette nouvelle version, s'arrêtant au moment où Tuor découvre la cité cachée. Christopher Tolkien a publié cette dernière version, qu'il a rebaptisée De Tuor et de sa venue à Gondolin, dans les Contes et légendes inachevés. Quelques années plus tard, il publia le conte original de 1917 dans le second Livre des contes perdus.
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  • p. 183, "seven dragons of fire are come with Orcs about them and Balrogs upon them..."
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  • In the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien, the "Fall of Gondolin" is the name of one of the original Lost Tales which formed the basis for a section in his later work, The Silmarillion. "The Fall of Gondolin" tells of the founding of the Elven city of Gondolin (built in secret by Turgon and his people), of the arrival of Tuor, a prince of the Edain, of the betrayal of the city to Morgoth by Turgon's nephew Maeglin, and of its subsequent destruction by Morgoth's armies.
  • Von Tuor und dem Fall von Gondolin ist eines der drei großen Epen des englischen Schriftstellers J. R. R. Tolkien, die im Ersten Zeitalter seiner fiktiven Welt Mittelerde spielen. Tolkien selbst stellt dar, dass sie die älteste der Geschichten Mittelerdes ist. Veröffentlicht wurden die verschiedenen Fassungen von seinem Sohn Christopher Tolkien.
  • La caída de Gondolin es un acontecimiento ficticio que tiene lugar dentro del legendarium creado por el escritor británico J. R. R. Tolkien y que es narrado en su novela póstuma El Silmarillion.
  • La Chute de Gondolin est un conte écrit en 1916-1917 par J.R.R. Tolkien. Il s'agit de son premier texte concernant la Terre du milieu.
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  • Fall of Gondolin
  • Von Tuor und dem Fall von Gondolin
  • Caída de Gondolin
  • La Chute de Gondolin
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