It has a dark lord, our first encounter with orcs and balrogs - it’s really Tolkien limbering up for what he would be doing later.” John Garth, author of Tolkien and the Great War, told the Guardian that The Fall of Gondolin is “a quest story with a reluctant hero who turns into a genuine hero - it’s a template for everything Tolkien wrote afterwards. Tolkien wrote the book while he was recovering in the hospital after serving in the Battle of the Somme, the largest battle in World War I and one of history’s bloodiest. The elven city of Gondolin - and its sacking by the dark lord Morgoth - was “the first real story” of Middle-earth. This announcement has surprised Tolkien scholars everywhere, because of how he had referred to 2017’s release of Beren and Lúthien as “(presumptively) my last book in the long series of editions of my father’s writings.” It seems, however, that “presumptively” was correct. Tolkien’s epic Middle-earth setting, The Fall of Gondolin, will be released this August, according to publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.Ĭhristopher Tolkien, who is 93, has edited and posthumously published more than two dozen collections of his father’s notes and unfinished work on the Middle-earth setting, as well as those on other subjects (like Beowulf and the work of translation).
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