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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.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 Ulmos desires and designs.Into this world comes Tuor, cousin of Túrin, the instrument of Ulmos 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, Turgons daughter, and their son is Eärendel, whose birth and profound importance in days to come is foreseen by Ulmo.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 Eärendel, 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 Eärendel, which Tolkien never wrote, but which is sketched out in this book from other sources.

OM J. R. R. TOLKIEN

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) var en brittisk författare, filolog och universitetsprofessor, mest känd som författare till fantasyromanerna The Lord of the Rings, på svenska mest känd som Sagan om ringen. (I äldre svensk översättning Härskarringen, och i nyöversättning 2004-2005 Ringarnas Herre.) Han skrev även Bilbo och Silmarillion. Tolkien var professor i fornengelska (anglosaxiska, Old English) vid universitetet i Oxford 1925-1945 och i English language and literature 1945-1959. (fr Wikipedia)

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