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The Fall of Gondolin by J.R.R. Tolkien - 2018 HarperCollins Hardback Book

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The Fall of Gondolin sits alongside The Children of Hurin and Beren and Luthien as one of the three 'Great Tales' of the First Age of Middle-earth.

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Комментарии : 44

@sargondp69 4 года назад

Thank you C. Tolkien for continuing your father's story telling. RIP

@JJMomoida 6 лет назад

The art by Alan Lee is truly beautiful. For many years I wished that The Silmarillion got the same hardcover treatment.

@markoorlando4532 3 года назад

it is now!

@JJMomoida 3 года назад

@@markoorlando4532 WHAT

@markoorlando4532 3 года назад

@@JJMomoida yeah!! it’s releasing in march in time for global “tolkien reading day”!!

@JJMomoida 3 года назад

@@markoorlando4532 That is great news! Thank you for letting me know.

@AnnaMarianne 6 лет назад

The Gondolinian tale is one of the most visually beautiful of Tolkien's tales, if that makes sense - the images he describes to the reader are just... gorgeous. Even if I admittedly never really felt for the characters in the particular tale* the same way I feel for those in CoH and BaL, the tale itself, the locations and the events are awe inspiring. (*Unless if we count Aredhel.)

@uktrvlr03 6 лет назад

I could listen to your voice for hours! Awesome British accent and super relaxing tone.👍

@PracticalBibleStudies 3 года назад

I treat these like a trilogy. Its a great follow-up after reading The Lord of the Rings.

@uktrvlr03 6 лет назад

I am so glad I found your channel! I found your channel by searching the RU-vid app under The Fall of Gondolin book. I found out today about the very recent release of the book.

@TalkingTolkien 6 лет назад

Thankyou for the kind words - and welcome to my channel!

@book-planet 5 лет назад

Really trying to get this one To add it to my video Tolkien collection. I love how you really informative about your thing

@timopiispanen4560 5 лет назад

I like the illustration of Alan Lee.

@ndujamz Год назад

Very sad that Turin never meet his cousin Tuor. They sort of pass each other without realising they related, of-course Turin was under the spell.

@entiretinofsweetcorn7025 6 лет назад

"It didn't arrive today... (i don't know why... )"

@altair6329 6 лет назад

Turkish translations It's too late for us. We should wait at least a year and a half. You're so lucky. Getting foreign language version from abroad is even too expensive

@FlyingAce1016 2 года назад

wish they made the dust cover glossy like the old copy of Children of Hurin instead of going the "the hobbit rough paper" route

@samuelleask1132 10 месяцев назад

Looking good!

@therdee14 5 лет назад

wow, great collection

@altair6329 6 лет назад

Very good book

@miroslavglisic4542 3 дня назад

This is weird, i have also hardback book english but the cover is different, the highest tower of Gondolin is actually under the tittle and the highest peek of mountains is lower then Jrr tolkien tittle. Does anyone know is something frong with my edition?

@Countravendark 3 месяца назад

Are these books a continuation of LOTR? I have heard today there are at least two more new movies will be released of LOTR

@thenerdofalltrades8190 3 года назад

Do these match with the new 2020 illustrated editions(Lord of the Rings+The Hobbit, Unfinished Tales, and the upcoming Silmarillion illustrated)? Not sure if I should buy or wait and see if there’s another release...

@zachchaz5922 3 года назад

Can you please tell me how the book looks like without the jacket? And also for next videos could you take them off? It's really hard to find videos where I can see the book without the dust cover

@CYON4D 5 лет назад

Great review as always!

@alenkikic3531 11 месяцев назад

Where did you buy the invisible covers for your books?

@wednesday567 2 года назад

is the hardcover larger in size? like are the color plates bigger or same size compared to softcover?

@mohammadtammeh6131 5 лет назад

A beautiful video really 🌹, do you advice me to buy it bro? because I’ve seen a lot of ppl saying it’s not a finished story or you find half of the stuff written in it in other book etc, so what do you think 🤔 is that true or not?

@robertslipek7311 5 лет назад

when do you think the softcover release will be out? i only managed to get the softcovers of the last two so i want this one to match.

@robertslipek7311 4 года назад

update, i have the softcover and my god it still doesn't match AT ALL. the spine is completely different and the book is much taller than the other illustrated editions. OCD nightmare.

@turtleanton6539 4 года назад

@@robertslipek7311 😂😂😂😂😂

@shmoopy3528 4 года назад

Should I read these three books if I’ve already read The Silmarilion?

@TalkingTolkien 4 года назад

If you enjoyed Silmarillion - definitely! There's a bit of overlap, but still well worth reading.

@giorgigorisa4402 6 лет назад

Are there any poems in this Book, as it was in Beren and Luthien??

@TalkingTolkien 6 лет назад

No, there are no poems, sadly. The Lay of the Fall of Gondolin does exist (some of it was published in The Lays of Beleriand) but it's still not been published in full. This is the reason Christopher Tolkien gave in Lays of Beleriand, and I assume nothing's changed: "I do not give this poem in extenso here, since it does not, so far as the main narrative is concerned, add anything to the Tale; and my father found, as I think, the metrical form unsuitable to the purpose."

@probro9898 Год назад

Its a pity its another scholarly book. I was expecting reconstructed novel like Children of Hurin

@charlylxbg 5 лет назад

Hey man, I m a bit confused about this book, maybe you can help me out:) I started reading it and since i always want to know where the story takes place i have my tolkien maps with me ;) So i read the first story and i dont really follow, then i read trough tolkien pages to understand the story and some important and really cool story parts are missing. So, am i right that i cant expect the whole story with every detail? Do i have to read every version and every version misses/adds other parts? best

@jmckasyru Год назад

Since no one has replied, I'll give an answer. Each version of this tale, like many others, have varying degrees of details and depth. There are varying versions of The Fall of Gondolin in The Book of Lost Tales, Unfinished Tales and The Silamillian. There are probably other versions in other titles that I didn't mention. It sounds like this volume binds all these versions under one cover. The Unfinished Tales version has the most depth and details, but it only gives a small part of the beginning, that of Tutor passing through some of Gondolin's seven gates. So, it's frustrating not to read of the actual battle. That makes the battles of Minas Tirith and of the Pelenor Fields look like small skirmishes. However, the other versions of the story give a substantial amount of details. Have you read this whole book by now? What do you think of it?

@gabrielagbese1945 6 лет назад

is there anyway to get pdf/epub for free online

@jasontucker3456 6 лет назад

nope

@altair6329 6 лет назад

Nope

@chibli7941 6 лет назад

There are some pages of services like mega but this book is new wait a month and you could get it

@Anthooyant89 6 лет назад

It was my understanding that Tolkien never finished the Children of Hurin that it was just as incomplete as the other two stories, and that it was his son who edited the story together from all the different drafts, and that he also had to bridge in the gaps story with his own material. I love the world Tolkien created, but for me, the new version of the story of Beren and Luthien felt like a waste, his son should have done the same thing he did with The Children of Hurin on these two new books.

@TalkingTolkien 6 лет назад

Christopher Tolkien didn't create any original material for Children of Hurin, since The Silmarillion he's been adamant he wouldn't do that. Hurin worked better as a narrative because there were fuller drafts to work from. Unfortunately this wasn't the case with Beren and Luthien and Gondolin, and because he wouldn't allow any original content to be created, there is no complete narrative of these stories. Sadly, what we have is as good as it's going to get.