Series
The Fall of Gondolin
J. R. R. Tolkien · 1 novel · 1 novella · 1984–2018
The Fall of Gondolin (2018), edited by Christopher Tolkien from his father's manuscripts, tells one of the three "Great Tales" of the First Age of Middle-earth: the hidden elven city of Gondolin, its long concealment, and its eventual betrayal and destruction by the forces of the dark lord Morgoth. It sits alongside The Children of Hurin and Beren and Luthien as an expanded, standalone telling of a story that The Silmarillion had compressed into a single chapter. This is legendarium history assembled from multiple drafts rather than a novel with one continuous throughline.
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Shape
1 novel · 1 novella
1 author · completed series
reads like:epic fantasywarsecondary worldtimeless or unspecifieddarkadult
Mood
Grim and calm: 50% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 5%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book2 of 2 works carry a tone
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- The Fall of Gandolindarkest · most intense
- The Fall of Gondolinbrightest · calmest