Fall of Gondolin

Of Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin is one of the three great epics of English writer JRR Tolkien, playing in the First Age of his fictional world of Middle-earth. Tolkien himself shows that this is the oldest of the tales of Middle-earth. Released were the different versions of Tolkien's son, Christopher Tolkien. The tale of Tuor is also told in the news from Middle-earth.

Content

It tells the story of man Tuor, who is sent from the Vala Ulmo the hidden city of Gondolin same to warn their king Turgon from impending doom. This is a unique encounter between a man and one of the Valar.

Tuor first grows on at the same Hithlums that after the devastating Nirnaeth Arnoediad (, battle of the countless tears ') in the caves of Androth (, long cave ') hide. Huor, the father of Tuor, has fallen in this battle and his mother Rían dies shortly after his birth in grief over this loss. As he has grown into a man, he makes his way to as he says, to fulfill his destiny. On the coast, near the mountain Tara, where Turgon had founded his first town in Middle-earth, he first finds a complete armor with sword and shield that Turgon had there once left behind on the advice of Ulmo. Then he meets even the Valar of the sea, who sent him with a message to Turgon, the Ulmo long ago said these words:

" Remember that the last hope of the Noldor will come from the sea. " Or: " If the danger is near, someone will come from Nevrast to warn you."

So finally reaches Tuor to Gondolin. In Gondolin Tuor is recognized as a messenger of Ulmo, Turgon is so in the work of his hands ( Gondolin ) love that he does not manage to leave the beautiful city. Tuor also stays there and falls in love later in Celebrindal Idril, daughter of Turgon, who reciprocates his love. From their relationship arises from the second generation of the so -called half- elves. After the betrayal of Maeglin, the city is destroyed by the armies of Morgoth. Tuor, Idril, Eärendil her son and a few other survivors flee then by a secret escape tunnel to the Sirionmündungen. At the end of his life Tuor built the ship Earráme (, marine swing arm '), and the Idril Celebrindal carried him to the west. Since then, he was never seen again in Middle-earth.

Versions

• Arrival in Gondolin: About 1951, after the completion of the first version of the Lord of the Rings, Tolkien began in typical fashion a completely new version of the story. This version was much more detailed and written in a clearly more definitive stage, but breaks off at the point when Tuor comes to Gondolin for the first time.
• Maeglin: Another chapter for this version of Tolkien but nevertheless completed, the over Maeglin.

For more epics from the First Age

Tolkien appoint its own three of the stories of his fictional world as the central among the tales of the First Age. In fact, parts of it (eg, names, and individual elements of the stories ) already in his earliest recordings from the 1910s detectable. These are in addition to Tuor - Sage:

• The Children of Húrin
• Lay of Leithian

Tolkien, however, has left these three stories intensive and revised again and again in very different stages of completion. In the publication of the Túrin story 2007 (The Children of Húrin ) has Christopher Tolkien points out that the state of the other two epics far fragmentary and not to think of their publication was so.