发表于2025-04-06
J.R.R. Tolkien was born on 3rd January 1892. After serving in the First World War, he became best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, selling 150 million copies in more than 40 languages worldwide. Awarded the CBE and an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Oxford University, he died in 1973 at the age of 81.
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 their 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 Túrin 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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The Fall of Gondolin 下载 mobi epub pdf 电子书##任何评价都是多余的,太壮烈啦?
评分##不久前,“哔哩哔哩无限矿产公司”上线了《指环王》《霍比特人》六部曲, 充一个大会员就可以梦回中洲,小破站诚不我欺! 熟悉《指环王》《霍比特人》原著的读者都知道,《魔戒》和《霍比特人》的故事都发生在中洲第三纪元,而在比尔博的冒险开始很久很久之前,中洲就存在了。 ...
评分##full text也不过110页,这个故事没写完真的太可惜了,还好有小托爷爷兢兢业业给父亲填坑。但还是好想看托老扩充成完整的故事,Tuor和Idril的日常,Turgon和Maeglin,还有最后的Earendil的远航。永远航行的船只,天边的大希望之星,Earendil那充满希望又无比悲剧的一生。第一纪元那么多人那么多精,竟然找不出几个善终善了的,托老发的一手好刀。又想起PJ的the hobbit里Thorin找到的刀貌似是Ecthelion的佩刀,刀依然在,而持刀的人早已魂归曼都斯,悲哉贡多林?
评分##不久前,“哔哩哔哩无限矿产公司”上线了《指环王》《霍比特人》六部曲, 充一个大会员就可以梦回中洲,小破站诚不我欺! 熟悉《指环王》《霍比特人》原著的读者都知道,《魔戒》和《霍比特人》的故事都发生在中洲第三纪元,而在比尔博的冒险开始很久很久之前,中洲就存在了。 ...
评分 评分##硬皮装帧很好,纸厚,插图精美。内容其实在宝钻、未完成故事、中土形成、珠宝之战那几本里都看过,托老前后改动也不算很大,感觉像和老朋友一起故地重游
评分 评分 评分##Aiya Earendil Elenion Ancalima! 我对刚多林的陷落的兴趣其实来自于那首埃雅仁迪尔之歌。 书比我想象中要有趣很多,本来以为会是枯燥的文稿,但读完好像经历了一次传说的诞生,窥见了一次故事的创作过程。或者说,一个世界的逐渐诞生与成长。 托老自己在不同时期所写的不同版...
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