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词条 The Fall of Gondolin
释义

  1. Story

  2. Origin and publication history

  3. Stand-alone book

  4. Adaptations

  5. See also

  6. References

  7. External links

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}}The Fall of Gondolin is, in the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien, one of the original Lost Tales which formed the basis for a section in his later work, The Silmarillion. A stand-alone, book-length version of the story was published on 30 August 2018.[1][1]

Story

The Fall of Gondolin tells of the founding of the secret Elven city of Gondolin; of the arrival there of Tuor, a prince of Men; of the betrayal of the city to Morgoth by the king's nephew, Maeglin; and of its subsequent destruction by Morgoth's armies. It also relates the flight of the fugitives to the Havens of Sirion, the wedding of Tuor and Idril, as well as the childhood of Eärendil.

Origin and publication history

Tolkien began writing the story that would become "The Fall of Gondolin" in 1917 in an army barracks on the back of a sheet of military marching music. It is the first traceable story of his Middle-earth legendarium that he wrote down on paper.[2] While the first half of the story "appears to echo Tolkien's creative development and slow acceptance of duty in the first year of the war," the second half echoes his personal experience of battle.[3]

Tolkien was constantly revising his First Age stories; however, the narrative he wrote in 1917, published posthumously in the Book of Lost Tales, remains the only full account of the fall of the city. The narrative in The Silmarillion was the result of the editing by his son Christopher using that story (minus some elements all too obviously evocative of World War I warfare) and compressed versions from the different versions of the Annals and Quentas as various sources. The later Quenta Silmarillion and the Grey Annals of Beleriand, the main sources for much of the published Silmarillion, both stop before the beginning of the Tuor story.

A partial later version of "The Fall of Gondolin" was published in the Unfinished Tales under the title "Of Tuor and his Coming to Gondolin". Originally titled "Of Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin," this narrative shows a great expansion of the earlier tale. Christopher Tolkien retitled the story before including it in Unfinished Tales, because it ends at the point of Tuor's arrival in Gondolin, and does not depict the actual Fall.

There is also an unfinished poem, The Lay of the Fall of Gondolin, of which a few verses are quoted in The Lays of Beleriand. In 130 verses Tolkien reaches the point where dragons attack the city.

Stand-alone book

On 30 August 2018,[4] the first stand-alone version of the story was published by HarperCollins in the UK[4] and Houghton Mifflin in the US.[4] This version, illustrated by Alan Lee, has been curated and edited by Christopher Tolkien,[4] J.R.R. Tolkien's son, who also edited The Silmarillion, The Children of Húrin, and several other works that were published after the author's death.[2]

Adaptations

Composer Paul Corfield Godfrey wrote a cycle of operatic works based upon The Silmarillion during the 1980s and 1990s with the permission of the Tolkien Estate. "The Fall of Gondolin" is the fourth part.

On the 1st September 2018, Prima Facie Records in conjunction with Volante Opera Productions released a Demo Recording of the work.

See also

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  • Armies and hosts of Middle-earth warfare
  • Glorfindel
  • Húrin
  • List of Middle-earth weapons
  • Middle-earth canon

References

1. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.tolkiensociety.org/2018/08/the-fall-of-gondolin-published/|title=The Fall of Gondolin published|date=30 August 2018|first=Daniel|last=Helen|publisher=Tolkien Society|accessdate=30 August 2018}}
2. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-43726236|title=J.R.R. Tolkien's First Middle-Earth Story, The Fall of Gondolin, to Be Published|date=11 April 2018|publisher=BBC|accessdate=13 April 2018}}
3. ^{{cite book |title=Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth |first=John |last=Garth |page=217 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |location=Boston, New York |year=2013 |isbn=9780544263727}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.tolkiensociety.org/2018/04/the-fall-of-gondolin-to-be-published/|title=The Fall of Gondolin to be published|date=10 April 2018|first=Daniel|last=Helen|publisher=Tolkien Society|accessdate=18 April 2018|quote=HarperCollins has announced that it will, for the very first time, publish The Fall of Gondolin on 30 August this year. [...] Edited by Christopher Tolkien and illustrated by Alan Lee, The Fall of Gondolin will follow the same format as Beren and Lúthien published last year, separating out the story so that it stands alone while showing how the narrative evolved over the years. This is the first time the tale of the Fall of Gondolin will be published as a standalone edition, collecting all versions of the story together.}}

External links

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