{"id":104867,"date":"2018-04-10T13:28:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T18:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=104867"},"modified":"2018-04-10T13:28:05","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T18:28:05","slug":"the-fall-of-gondolin-officially-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2018\/04\/10\/104867-the-fall-of-gondolin-officially-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Fall of Gondolin” Officially Announced!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s official…”The Fall of Gondolin” by J.R.R Tolkien, edited by Christoper Tolkien, and illustrated by Alan Lee, is indeed being published. It will be released on August 30, 2018. While rumored, the release still comes as a very welcome surprise given that many expected “Beren and L\u00fathien” to be Christoper Tolkien’s final release. “The Fall of Gondolin” will be available in hardback, deluxe hardback, large print and e-book worldwide as well as a companion Tolkien Calendar. The Guardian<\/a> has a wealth of interesting background on the story. Further details as well as reaction can also be found at The Tolkien Society<\/a>.
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From the HarperCollins Press Release:<\/h3>\n

In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin<\/em> 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 Manw\u00eb, 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 H\u00farin and T\u00farin Turambar.<\/p>\n

Central to this enmity of the gods is the city of Gondolin, beautiful but undiscoverable. It was built and peopled by Noldorin Elves who, when they dwelt in Valinor, the land of the gods, rebelled against their rule and fled to Middle-earth. Turgon King of Gondolin is hated and feared above all his enemies by Morgoth, who seeks in vain to discover the marvellously hidden city, while the gods in Valinor in heated debate largely refuse to intervene in support of Ulmo\u2019s desires and designs.<\/p>\n

Into this world comes Tuor, cousin of T\u00farin, the instrument of Ulmo\u2019s designs. Guided unseen by him Tuor sets out from the land of his birth on the fearful journey to Gondolin, and in one of the most arresting moments in the history of Middle-earth the sea-god himself appears to him, rising out of the ocean in the midst of a storm. In Gondolin he becomes great; he is wedded to Idril, Turgon\u2019s daughter, and their son is E\u00e4rendel, whose birth and profound importance in days to come is foreseen by Ulmo.<\/p>\n

At last comes the terrible ending. Morgoth learns through an act of supreme treachery all that he needs to mount a devastating attack on the city, with Balrogs and dragons and numberless Orcs. After a minutely observed account of the fall of Gondolin, the tale ends with the escape of Tuor and Idril, with the child E\u00e4rendel, looking back from a cleft in the mountains as they flee southward, at the blazing wreckage of their city. They were journeying into a new story, the Tale of E\u00e4rendel, which Tolkien never wrote, but which is sketched out in this book from other sources.<\/p>\n

Following his presentation of Beren and L\u00fathien <\/em>Christopher Tolkien has used the same \u2018history in sequence\u2019 mode in the writing of this edition of The Fall of Gondolin. <\/em>In the words of J.R.R. Tolkien, it was \u2018the first real story of this imaginary world\u2019 and, together with Beren and L\u00fathien <\/em>and The Children of H\u00farin<\/em>, he regarded it as one of the three \u2018Great Tales\u2019 of the Elder Days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s official…”The Fall of Gondolin” by J.R.R Tolkien, edited by Christoper Tolkien, and illustrated by Alan Lee, is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":485,"featured_media":104868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"\"The Fall of Gondolin\" Officially Announced! #JRRTolkien","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[241,238,153,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alan_lee","category-christopher_tolkien","category-tolkien-life","category-tolkbooks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/29871783_1458404457604918_8654216147061537081_o.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-rhp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/485"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104867"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104875,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104867\/revisions\/104875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}