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The Fall of Gondolin
Front cover of the 2018 hardback edition
EditorChristopher Tolkien
AuthorJ. R. R. Tolkien
IllustratorAlan Lee
Cover artistAlan Lee
LanguageEnglish
SubjectTolkien's legendarium
GenreHigh fantasy
Published2018
PublisherHarperCollins
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages304[1]
ISBN978-0008302757
Preceded byBeren and Lúthien 

J. R. R. Tolkien's The Fall of Gondolin is a 2018 book of fantasy fiction by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by his son Christopher.[1][2] The story is one of what Tolkien called the three "Great Tales" from the First Age of Middle-earth; the other two are Beren and Lúthien and The Children of Húrin. All three stories are briefly summarised in The Silmarillion, and all three have now been published as stand-alone books. A version of the story appears, too, in The Book of Lost Tales. In the narrative, Gondolin was founded by King Turgon in the First Age; the city was carefully hidden, enduring for centuries before being betrayed and destroyed. Written in 1917, it is one of the first stories of Tolkien's legendarium.

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