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Literary work by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Fall of Gondolin Front cover of the 2018 hardback edition, with a painting by Alan Lee Editor Christopher Tolkien Author J. R. R. Tolkien Illustrator Alan Lee Cover artist Alan Lee Language English Subject Tolkien's legendarium Genre High fantasy Published 2018 Publisher HarperCollins Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publication place United Kingdom Media type Print (hardback) Pages 304[1] ISBN 978-0008302757 Preceded by Beren and Lúthien

***The Fall of Gondolin*** is a 2018 book of [fantasy](/source/Fantasy) fiction by [J. R. R. Tolkien](/source/J._R._R._Tolkien), edited by [his son Christopher](/source/Christopher_Tolkien).[1][2] The story is one of what Tolkien called the three "[Great Tales](/source/Great_Tales)" from the [First Age](/source/First_Age) of [Middle-earth](/source/Middle-earth); the other two are *[Beren and Lúthien](/source/Beren_and_L%C3%BAthien)* and *[The Children of Húrin](/source/The_Children_of_H%C3%BArin)*. All three stories are briefly summarised in the 1977 book *[The Silmarillion](/source/The_Silmarillion)*, and all three have now been published as stand-alone books. A version of the story also appears in *[The Book of Lost Tales](/source/The_Book_of_Lost_Tales)*. In the narrative, [Gondolin](/source/Gondolin) was founded by King [Turgon](/source/Turgon_of_Gondolin) in the [First Age](/source/First_Age). The city was carefully hidden, enduring for centuries before being betrayed and destroyed. Written in 1917, it is one of the first stories of [Tolkien's legendarium](/source/Tolkien's_legendarium).

## Text

[Gothmog](/source/Gothmog), High Captain of [Angband](/source/Angband_(Middle-earth)), at the storming of Gondolin. Illustration by [Tom Loback](/source/Tom_Loback)

### Origins

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](/source/Marching_music). It is one of the first stories of his Middle-earth [legendarium](/source/Tolkien's_legendarium) that he wrote down on paper,[3] after his 1914 tale, inspired by the [Old English](/source/Old_English) manuscript [Crist 1](/source/Crist_1), "The Voyage of Earendel, the Evening Star".[4] While the first half of the story "appears to echo Tolkien's creative development and slow acceptance of duty in the first year of the war," the second half echoes [his personal experience of battle](/source/J._R._R._Tolkien#Battle_of_the_Somme).[5] The story was read aloud by Tolkien to the [Exeter College](/source/Exeter_College%2C_Oxford) Essay Club in the spring of 1920.[6]

Tolkien was constantly revising his [First Age](/source/First_Age) stories; however, the narrative he wrote in 1917, published posthumously in *[The Book of Lost Tales](/source/The_Book_of_Lost_Tales)*, remains the only full account of the fall of the city.[6]

### Publication of versions of the story

The narrative "Of Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin" in the 1977 book *[The Silmarillion](/source/The_Silmarillion)* was the result of the editing by his son [Christopher](/source/Christopher_Tolkien)[7] using the 1917 narrative (minus some elements all too obviously evocative of [World War I](/source/World_War_I) warfare) and compressed versions from the different versions of the *Annals* and *Quentas* as additional sources. The later *[Quenta Silmarillion](/source/Quenta_Silmarillion)* and the *[Grey Annals](/source/Grey_Annals)*, the main sources for much of the published *Silmarillion*, both stop before the beginning of the [Tuor](/source/Tuor) story.

A partial later version of *The Fall of Gondolin* was published in the 1980 book *[Unfinished Tales](/source/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](/source/Christopher_Tolkien) retitled the story before including it in *Unfinished Tales*, because it ends at the point of [Tuor](/source/Tuor_and_Idril)'s arrival in [Gondolin](/source/Gondolin), and does not depict the actual Fall.[8]

There is also an unfinished poem, *The Lay of the Fall of Gondolin*, of which a few verses are quoted in the 1985 book *[The Lays of Beleriand](/source/The_Lays_of_Beleriand)*. In 130 verses Tolkien reaches the point where [dragons](/source/Dragon_(Middle-earth)) attack the city.

## Book

### Publication history

In 2018,[1] the first stand-alone version of the story was published by [HarperCollins](/source/HarperCollins) in the UK[1] and [Houghton Mifflin](/source/Houghton_Mifflin_Harcourt) in the US.[1] This version, illustrated by [Alan Lee](/source/Alan_Lee_(illustrator)), was curated and edited by Christopher Tolkien,[1] J. R. R. Tolkien's son, who also edited *[The Silmarillion](/source/The_Silmarillion)*, *[Unfinished Tales](/source/Unfinished_Tales)*, and the twelve-volume *[The History of Middle-earth](/source/The_History_of_Middle-earth)*.[3]

### Contents

- Prologue

- The Original Tale

- The Earliest Text

- "Turin and the Exiles of Gondolin"

- The Story Told in the *Sketch of the Mythology*

- The Story Told in the *Quenta Noldorinwa*

- The Last Version

- The Evolution of the Story

- Conclusion

The book ends with a list of names, additional notes, and a glossary.

## Reception

### By Tolkien scholars

Douglas Kane writes in *[Journal of Tolkien Research](/source/Journal_of_Tolkien_Research)* that *The Fall of Gondolin* was the first of Tolkien's three "Great Tales" to be written, and the last to be published, the other two being the Great Tale of Túrin Turambar (published in *[The Children of Húrin](/source/The_Children_of_H%C3%BArin)*, 2007, edited into a continuous story) and *[Beren and Lúthien](/source/Beren_and_L%C3%BAthien)* (2017, presented as a set of versions of the story). That left the tale which was "arguably the one in which the world of Middle-earth is most vividly presented and in which Tolkien’s philosophical themes are most profoundly expressed."[9] Kane adds that although the book collects material already published, "it still succeeds in rounding out that task", for instance by putting the "Sketch of the Mythology" in the prologue. He wonders, though, why the editor included part of the poem "The Flight of the Noldoli from Valinor" (already in *The Lays of Beleriand*), but omits the poem fragment "The Lay of the Fall of Gondolin" which is far more obviously relevant. Kane admires Alan Lee's illustrations, both in colour and in black and white, as [providing "a perfect complement" to the final book](/source/Illustrating_Tolkien) in the "unique and remarkable" collaboration between Christopher Tolkien and his father.[9]

Jennifer Rogers, reviewing the book for *[Tolkien Studies](/source/Tolkien_Studies)*, writes that it "highlights the power of the Gondolin story in its own right with minimal editorial intrusion."[10] As Tolkien's first tale and the last one to be published by his son, the book is "laden with the sense of weight such a publication brings", taking the reader back to the place where [the whole Legendarium](/source/Tolkien's_legendarium) began, the story about [Eärendel](/source/E%C3%A4rendel) (later called Eärendil).[10]

### In newspapers

According to *[Entertainment Weekly](/source/Entertainment_Weekly)*, "Patient and dedicated readers will find among the references to other books and their many footnotes and appendices a poignant sense of completion and finality to the life's pursuit of a father and son."[11] Writing for *[The Washington Post](/source/The_Washington_Post)*, writer [Andrew Ervin](/source/Andrew_Ervin) said that "*The Fall of Gondolin* provides everything Tolkien's readers expect."[12] According to *[The Independent](/source/The_Independent)*, "Even amid the complexities and difficulties of the book—and there are many—there is enough splendid imagery and characterful prose that readers will be carried along to the end even if they don't know where they are going."[13]

## See also

- [Middle-earth canon](/source/Middle-earth_canon)

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-TolkienSociety100418_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-TolkienSociety100418_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-TolkienSociety100418_1-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-TolkienSociety100418_1-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-TolkienSociety100418_1-4) [***f***](#cite_ref-TolkienSociety100418_1-5) Helen, Daniel (10 April 2018). ["The Fall of Gondolin to be published"](https://www.tolkiensociety.org/2018/04/the-fall-of-gondolin-to-be-published/). Tolkien Society. Retrieved 18 April 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-TolkienSociety2_2-0)** Helen, Daniel (30 August 2018). ["The Fall of Gondolin published"](https://www.tolkiensociety.org/2018/08/the-fall-of-gondolin-published/). Tolkien Society. Retrieved 30 August 2018.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-BBC1_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-BBC1_3-1) ["J.R.R. Tolkien's First Middle-Earth Story, The Fall of Gondolin, to Be Published"](https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-43726236). [BBC](/source/BBC). 11 April 2018. Retrieved 13 April 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarpenter197772_4-0)** [Carpenter 1977](#CITEREFCarpenter1977), p. 72.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** [Garth, John](/source/John_Garth_(author)) (2013). *[Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth](/source/Tolkien_and_the_Great_War%3A_The_Threshold_of_Middle-earth)*. Boston: [Houghton Mifflin Harcourt](/source/Houghton_Mifflin_Harcourt). p. 217. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0544263727](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0544263727).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-BOLT2_Fall_of_Gondolin_6-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-BOLT2_Fall_of_Gondolin_6-1) [Tolkien 1984b](#CITEREFTolkien1984b) "The Fall of Gondolin"

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETolkien1977"Of_Tuor_and_the_Fall_of_Gondolin"_7-0)** [Tolkien 1977](#CITEREFTolkien1977), "Of Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin".

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETolkien1980"Part_One:_The_First_Age":_"Of_Tuor_and_his_Coming_to_Gondolin"_8-0)** [Tolkien 1980](#CITEREFTolkien1980), "Part One: The First Age": "Of Tuor and his Coming to Gondolin".

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Kane_2018_9-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Kane_2018_9-1) Kane, Douglas Charles (2018). ["\[Review:\] The Fall of Gondolin (2018) by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien"](https://scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolkienresearch/vol6/iss2/1). *[Journal of Tolkien Research](/source/Journal_of_Tolkien_Research)*. **6** (2). Article 1.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Rogers_2019_10-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Rogers_2019_10-1) Rogers, Jennifer (2019). "[Review] The Fall of Gondolin by J.R.R Tolkien". *[Tolkien Studies](/source/Tolkien_Studies)*. **16** (1): 170–174. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1353/tks.2019.0013](https://doi.org/10.1353%2Ftks.2019.0013). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [211969055](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:211969055).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** Lewis, Evan (25 August 2018). ["*The Fall of Gondolin* is an indispensable examination of Tolkien's first Middle-earth story: EW review"](https://ew.com/books/2018/08/25/fall-of-gondolin-tolkien-review/). *[Entertainment Weekly](/source/Entertainment_Weekly)*. Retrieved 18 April 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** [Ervin, Andrew](/source/Andrew_Ervin) (28 August 2018). ["J.R.R. Tolkien's latest posthumous book may actually be the last"](https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/jrr-tolkiens-latest-posthumous-book-may-actually-be-the-last/2018/08/26/f3d95e20-a556-11e8-8fac-12e98c13528d_story.html). *[The Washington Post](/source/The_Washington_Post)*. Retrieved 18 April 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-13)** Griffin, Andrew (31 August 2018). ["JRR Tolkien, The Fall of Gondolin review: A vast and fitting last look at Middle Earth"](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/jrr-tolkien-fall-of-gondolin-review-latest-last-book-christopher-harper-collins-a8516571.html). *[The Independent](/source/The_Independent)*. [Archived](https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220618/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/jrr-tolkien-fall-of-gondolin-review-latest-last-book-christopher-harper-collins-a8516571.html) from the original on 18 June 2022. Retrieved 18 April 2020.

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v t e Middle-earth J. R. R. Tolkien Bibliography Canon Legendarium Outline Works In Tolkien's lifetime The Hobbit (1937) The Lord of the Rings (1954–55) The Fellowship of the Ring "The Shadow of the Past" "The Council of Elrond" The Two Towers The Return of the King "The Scouring of the Shire" "The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen" The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962) Posthumous The Silmarillion (1977) "Ainulindalë" Unfinished Tales (1980) The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981) Bilbo's Last Song (1990) The three "Great Tales" The Children of Húrin (2007) Beren and Lúthien (2017) The Fall of Gondolin (2018) The Fall of Númenor (2022) History of composition History of Middle-earth [1–2] The Book of Lost Tales (1983–84) Ælfwine [3] The Lays of Beleriand (1985) [4] The Shaping of Middle-earth (1986) [5] The Lost Road and Other Writings (1987) The Etymologies Lhammas [6–9] The History of The Lord of the Rings (1988–1992) The Notion Club Papers [10] Morgoth's Ring (1993) [11] The War of the Jewels (1994) [12] The Peoples of Middle-earth (1996) Others John D. Rateliff The History of The Hobbit (2007) Carl F. Hostetter The Nature of Middle-earth (2021) Fictional universe Peoples, monsters Ainur Maiar Balrogs Wizards Valar Dragons Ancalagon Smaug Dwarves Eagles Elves Half-elven Noldor Sundering Ents Hobbits Men Beornings Drúedain Dúnedain Orcs Trolls Characters First and Second Ages Celebrimbor Eärendil and Elwing Elendil Fëanor Fingolfin Finwë and Míriel Gil-galad Húrin Isildur Lúthien and Beren Melian Morgoth Thingol Tuor and Idril Túrin Turambar Ungoliant Third Age Elrond Galadriel Gandalf Glorfindel Goldberry Gollum Saruman Sauron Tom Bombadil Places First and Second Ages Beleriand Númenor Valinor Third Age Bree Esgaroth Gondor Harad Isengard Lonely Mountain Lothlórien Mirkwood Mordor Moria Rivendell Rohan The Shire Bag End Objects Mithril Palantír Red Book of Westmarch Rings of Power One Ring Silmarils Two Trees of Valinor List of weapons and armour Analysis Elements Artwork Family trees Heraldry Languages Adûnaic Black Speech Elvish Quenya Sindarin Khuzdul Valarin Westron Maps Tolkien's poetry Scripts Cirth Sarati Tengwar Themes Anachronism Ancestry as guide to character Architecture Christianity Cosmology Round World dilemma Death and immortality Decline and fall Dreams and visions Economy England Environmentalism Evil First World War Forests Frame stories Hell Heroism Light Luck and fate Magic Mental illness Modernism Moral dilemma Music Naming of weapons Northern courage Old Straight Road Paganism Plants Psychological journeys Quests Sound and language Time Trees Literary Tolkien's impact on fantasy Influences Beowulf Celtic Classical world Finnish language and literature Medieval Modern William Morris Norse Philology Shakespeare Prose style Ambiguity A mythology for England Geographic Geology The Atlas of Middle-earth Journeys of Frodo A Map of Middle-earth Adaptations, legacy Illustrators Pauline Baynes Cor Blok Anke Eißmann Brothers Hildebrandt Jenny Dolfen Mary Fairburn Donato Giancola John Howe Tove Jansson Alexander Korotich Alan Lee Tom Loback Margrethe II of Denmark Ted Nasmith Composers Bo Hansson Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings Leonard Rosenman Music of The Lord of the Rings, 1978 Johan de Meij Symphony No. 1 The Lord of the Rings Howard Shore Music of The Lord of the Rings film series Music of The Hobbit film series Music of The Rings of Power TV series Bear McCreary Music of The Rings of Power TV series Stephen Gallagher Music of The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth Settings Donald Swann The Road Goes Ever On Poems and Songs of Middle Earth The Tolkien Ensemble An Evening in Rivendell A Night in Rivendell At Dawn in Rivendell Leaving Rivendell Other media Impact Middle-earth Enterprises Works inspired by Tolkien Fan fiction Film Calendars Video games Things named after Tolkien and his works Literary criticism The Complete Guide to Middle-earth A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien Interrupted Music Master of Middle-Earth Picturing Tolkien A Question of Time J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion Perilous Realms The Road to Middle-Earth Splintered Light Tolkien and the Invention of Myth Tolkien's Art: 'A Mythology for England' Tolkien: A Look Behind The Lord of the Rings A Tolkien Compass Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth Tolkien, Race and Cultural History Tolkien's Legendarium Tolkien and the Great War The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary

v t e J. R. R. Tolkien Bibliography Letters Poetry and songs Songs for the Philologists (1936) "Bagme Bloma" The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son (1953) "A Walking Song" (1954) The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962) "Errantry" "Fastitocalon" "The Sea-Bell" "The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late" The Road Goes Ever On (1967) Bilbo's Last Song (1974) The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún (2009) The Fall of Arthur (2013) The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien (2024) List of Tolkien's alliterative verse Fiction The Hobbit (1937) "Leaf by Niggle" (1947) The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (1945) Farmer Giles of Ham (1949) The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring (1954) The Two Towers (1954) The Return of the King (1955) Tree and Leaf (1964) The Tolkien Reader (1966) Smith of Wootton Major (1967) Posthumous fiction The Father Christmas Letters (1976) The Silmarillion (1977) Unfinished Tales (1980) Mr. Bliss (1982) The History of Middle-earth (1983–1996) The Book of Lost Tales The Lays of Beleriand The Shaping of Middle-earth The Lost Road and Other Writings The History of The Lord of the Rings Morgoth's Ring The War of the Jewels The Peoples of Middle-earth Roverandom (1998) The Children of Húrin (2007) The History of The Hobbit (2007) The Story of Kullervo (2015) Beren and Lúthien (2017) The Fall of Gondolin (2018) The Nature of Middle-earth (2021) The Fall of Númenor (2022) Academic works Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English text, 1925) "The Devil's Coach Horses" (1925) "Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad" (1929) "Sigelwara Land" (1932–34) "Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale" (1934) "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" (1936) "On Fairy-Stories" (1939) Eucatastrophe "On Translating Beowulf" (1940) Sir Orfeo (1944) Ancrene Wisse (1962) "English and Welsh" (1963) Jerusalem Bible (as translator and lexicographer, 1966) Posthumous academic Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo (translations, 1975) Exodus (1981) Finn and Hengest (1982) The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays (1983) Beowulf and the Critics (2002) Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary with "Sellic Spell" (2014) A Secret Vice (2016) Scholars (works) Biographers Humphrey Carpenter J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography (1977, authorized biography) John Garth Tolkien and the Great War The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien Catherine McIlwaine Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth Charles Moseley Christian Stratford Caldecott Matthew T. Dickerson Colin Duriez Peter Kreeft Holly Ordway Joseph Pearce Fleming Rutledge Ralph C. Wood Literary critics Douglas A. Anderson The Annotated Hobbit Nicholas Birns Bradley J. Birzer Janice Bogstad & Philip Kaveny Picturing Tolkien David Bratman Janet Brennan Croft Tolkien on Film Patrick Curry Bradford Lee Eden Dimitra Fimi Tolkien, Race and Cultural History Jason Fisher Verlyn Flieger Interrupted Music A Question of Time Splintered Light Michael Foster Nick Groom Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull J. R. R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide Randel Helms Thomas Honegger Charles A. Huttar Paul H. Kocher Master of Middle-Earth Stuart D. Lee The Keys of Middle-earth Jared Lobdell A Tolkien Compass John D. Rateliff Robin Anne Reid Brian Rosebury Tolkien: A Cultural Phenomenon Amy H. Sturgis Anna Vaninskaya Richard C. West Elizabeth Whittingham Rose Zimbardo Understanding The Lord of the Rings Linguists Anthony Appleyard Helge Fauskanger Carl F. Hostetter Tom Loback David Salo Arden R. Smith Allan Turner Medievalists, Classicists Marjorie Burns Perilous Realms Jane Chance Tolkien and the Invention of Myth Tolkien's Art: 'A Mythology for England' Michael D. C. Drout J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia Jonathan Evans Vincent Ferré Gergely Nagy Tom Shippey J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century The Road to Middle-Earth Anna Smol Elizabeth Solopova Sandra Ballif Straubhaar Hamish Williams Tolkien and the Classical World Popular Lin Carter Robert Foster Glen GoodKnight Michael Martinez Charles Noad J. E. A. Tyler Related Family Francis Xavier Morgan Influences Artwork Languages constructed by Tolkien Impact of Tolkien's Middle-earth writings Inklings Coalbiters Milton Waldman Mythopoeic Society Elvish Linguistic Fellowship Tolkien's impact on fantasy Tolkien and the modernists Tolkien Estate Tolkien fandom Tolkien fan fiction Tolkien Gateway The Tolkien Society Awards Memorials Reception Tolkien research Mythlore Tolkien Studies Works inspired by Tolkien Tolkien (biographical film) Poems and Songs of Middle Earth (album) Language and Human Nature The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary

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