This weekend, Hall of Fire finally resumes its Silmarillion chats with chapter 16 — Of Maeglin. We’ll explore the tragic tale of Aredhel and Eol, exploring what spurred the White Lady of Gondolin to leave the hidden city and how it set in train a trail of events that leads right up the sacking of Gondolin itself.

‘So you forsake your father and his kin, ill-gotten son! Here shall you fail of all your hopes, and here may you yet die the same death as I.’ Eol at Gondolin. [More]

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