J.R.R. Tolkien (Bloemfontein, Sud-àfrica 1892 - Bournemouth, Anglaterra, 1973), escriptor i lingüista britànic, és conegut principalment per la seva trilogia El senyor dels anells, obra de fantasia considerada tot un clàssic de la literatura universal. Va resultar un grandíssim èxit de crítica i públic, convertint-se en un clar referent per a tota la literatura fantàstica posterior, essent traduïda a nombrosos idiomes i aconseguint unes impressionants xifres de vendes a tot el món. L'adaptació al cinema, feta el 2001 per Peter Jackson, va suposar un èxit mundial, aconseguint el rècord de Premis Oscar per a una trilogia i revitalitzant l'estudi de l'obra de Tolkien. La trilogia comparteix escenari amb una altra de les seves grans novel·les, El hòbbit (1937), obra que, si bé en principi anava dedicada a un públic més juvenil, va aconseguir l'atenció d'un mercat més ampli. Altres títols destacables de l'autor són Contes inacabats de Númenor i la Terra Mitjana, El Silmaríl·lion, Els fills de Hurin o, dins dels seus contes infantils, Roverandom i El ferrer de Wootton Major.
Tolkien va rebre nombrosos homenatges i reconeixements acadèmics al llarg de la seva carrera, així com distincions com la Creu de l'Imperi Britànic o nombrosos honoris causa.
The fall of Gondolin
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In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth of the uttermost evil, unseen in this story but ruling over a vast military power from his fortress of Angband. Deeply opposed to Morgoth is Ulmo, second in might only to Manwë, chief of the Valar.
Central to this enmity of the gods is the city of Gondolin, beautiful but undiscoverable. It was built and peopled by Noldorin Elves who, when they dwelt in Valinor, the land of the gods, rebelled against their rule and fled to Middle-earth. Turgon King of Gondolin is hated and feared above all his enemies by Morgoth, who seeks in vain to discover the marvellously hidden city, while the gods in Valinor in heated debate largely refuse to intervene in support of Ulmo's desires and designs.
Into this world comes Tuor, cousin of Túrin, the instrument of Ulmo's designs. Guided unseen by him Tuor sets out from the land of his birth on the fearful journey to Gondolin, and in one of the most arresting moments in the history of Middle-earth the sea-god himself appears to him, rising out of the ocean in the midst of a storm. In Gondolin he becomes great, he is wedded to Idril, Turgon's daughter, and her son is Eärendel, whose birth and profound importance in days to come is foreseen by Ulmo.
At last comes the terrible ending. Morgoth learns through an act of supreme treachery all that he needs to mount a devastating attack on the city, with Balrogs and dragons and numberless orcs. After a minutely observed account of the fall of Gondolin, the tale ends with the escape of Tuor and Idril, with the child Eärendel, looking back from a cleft in the mountains as they flee southward, at the blazing wreckage of their city. They were journeying into a new story, the Tale of Eärendel, which Tolkien never wrote, but which is sketched out in this book from other sources.
Following his presentation of Beren and Lúthien Christopher Tolkien has used the same 'history in sequence' mode in the writing of this edition of The Fall of Gondolin . In the words of J.R.R. Tolkien, it was 'the first real story of this imaginary world' and, together with Beren and Lúthien and The Children of Húrin, he regarded it as one of the three 'Great Tales' of the Elder Days.
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