A bittersweet feeling to finally add this book to my collection, I always wanted it however I knew that once it was released, there would be no more to come from the great man.
Sadly the epic he started writing back in 1917 in the First World War was never completed. If you have read the Silmarillion you know how it ends. Though not having Tolkien's own finishing touches on it, as with anything posthumously released since his passing, makes you wonder what more it could of been if truly completed and not pieced together from countless notes. His son, Christopher, once again does an amazing job of filling gaps and adding narration to certain things
Like always the artwork by Alan Lee is simply sublime. Until Children of Hurin he said he had never worked on the First Age of Middle-earth, he has now brought that magically epic period to life three times like I could of only dreamed.
While there is no true finality to the story of Gondolin in this edition; the book is still worth adding to your collection if you are a big Tolkien fan.
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For the uninitiated, like most of Christopher Tolkien’s work on the history of Middle-Earth, this book is not one, long narrative, but a journey through the differing developments/versions of this ‘great tale’. For those, like myself, who are into that sort of thing, then this—like the others—is par excellence; giving the depth and immersion you’ve come to expect from Christopher’s expertise and sensitivity to his father’s creations.
It’s rather poetic that Christopher Tolkien’s final editorial release of his father’s work would be first story that J.R.R Tolkien drafted of his Middle-Earth Saga. Knowing this however, brought a twinge of lament when I turned the last page; it saddens me to think that this is possibly the last of Tolkien’s work that we will see emerge. I’ve said this before (somewhere), but I firmly believe that Christopher Tolkien deserves as much praise as his father for editing and bringing all these unfinished tales posthumously to light.
At the risk of sounding paradoxical; the Fall of Gondolin is a triumph!
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