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Readers familiar with the original Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit know that the tales of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit both take place in the Third Age of Middle-earth, and that Middle-earth existed long and long before Bilbo's adventure began.
■ The view from the movie "The Lord of the Rings"
How long is the history of Middle-earth? Look at the dialogue between elven lord Elrond and Frodo in The Lord of the Rings —
At this point, Elrond was silent for a moment and sighed: "I still remember their brilliant and distinctive flags. The gathering of so many great princes and generals reminds me of the glory of ancient times and the armies of Bereriand, but even in that number and appearance, they are still inferior to the time when Sangolozum collapsed, when the elves thought evil was over forever, but this was not the case. ”
"Do you remember?" Frodo was shocked and blurted out what he had in mind. Elrond turned to him, and he stuttered involuntarily: "But I thought... I thought the fall of Gil-Gallard was a long, long time ago. ”
"That's true." Elrond looked solemn, "But my memory even dates back to ancient times." My father was Eyjarendil, who was born before the fall of Gundolin, and my mother was Dior's daughter Elven, and Dior was the son of Lucien of Dorias. I have witnessed the rise and fall of three eras in Westworld, witnessed many defeats, and many futile victories.
■ Stills from the Elrond Conference
Elrond's memories will pull the elves, dwarves, Maia, humans, and hobbits present back to the distant First Age, and the fall of Gondolin he mentions is an epoch-making event in the history of Middle-earth. With the fall of Gondolin, the major elven cities of the First Age of Middle-earth were completely destroyed.
The story begins in ancient times.
The elves Vanya, Nodo, and Tylery are invited by the gods (Vera) to live in Vellino. Fienor, the eldest son of Fenway, the supreme king of the Nodo clan, crafted three elven gemstones, in which they were embedded with a living flame that fused with the light of the Two Sacred Trees. The Dark Lord Mirko (also known as Morgoth, the boss of the Demon King Sauron in The Lord of the Rings) covets the Diamond and intends revenge by destroying the Double Sacred Tree that illuminates Verino, killing Fenway, and stealing the Elven Diamond, which causes the Nordos to rebel against vila and flee Villino. In the process of fleeing, the Nodos slaughtered their relative, the Tylerian Elves, in order to rob the ships that crossed the sea, which provoked the anger of the gods.
The Vilamoantus, who is in charge of the undead, cursed the Fayeno family for the slaughter of their relatives, and they will forever suffer from betrayal between their relatives, their oath will betray them, they will endure a certain fate of mortality, they will be easily killed by weapons, torture or grief, and finally they will decline in the face of that young race (humans). Mandos also made many ominous predictions about what was to happen, warning the Nordos that Vera would close Verino and not allow them to return. But Fieno was heartbroken and moved on. The people of Fieno's younger brother Finn Guoxuan also felt bound by their relatives and feared the judgment of the gods, so they hesitated to flee and fled to Middle-earth to fight to the death with Mirko, who had taken the Elven Diamond. The long history of the High Elves and the ancient humans against the first generation of dark demon kings Mirko also began.
In Middle-earth, the Elves established three great cities—the high king of the Sinda tribe, Singh, and the queen beautiful Andrrias, the son of Finrod of the Nodo fenafin, the hidden city of Gangdolin, built by the son of the Nodo Fenafin, and turgun, the son of the Nodo Fenn.
In the Battle of Tears, the Alliance of Elves, Humans, and Dwarves travels to the Iron Hell Angban to challenge Mirko, where they are defeated. A large number of Nodo elves were brutally killed and captured, and abused by Morgoth.
Turgun, under the cover of the heroic human Hulin and Hou, led his people out of the battlefield and lived in seclusion in Gondolin ever since. The people of Gondolin grew stronger, and their armory was full of weapons. However, Turgun did not send troops to aid Naguo Slund or Dorias, and after the killing of Dior, the grandson of Singh, the king of Dorias, he also severed contact with the sons of Fieno. Finally, he closed the valley to no escapees and forbade the inhabitants of Gondolin to leave the valley. Gondolin became the only remaining stronghold of the elves.
Morgoth had not forgotten Turgun, but his search was fruitless. Naguoslund was destroyed, Dorias was destroyed, Hurin's children were killed, and in addition to the large number of slave laborers working in the forges and mines, only the scattered elves, the Nodos, and Ilcolins were left. Morgoth almost won a big victory.
But Vera, who loves elves and the lord of the waters, has never forgotten the tragic experience of the elves under the power of Mirko, and he sends his son Oflin to Gundolin to persuade Turgun to rebel against the evil forces-"Don't think of the treachery of the cursed Udon, but remember Hulin; for without mortal mortals, the elves cannot defeat the Fire Demons and Oak." "U-Oumu predicted a terrible and deadly battle, but as soon as Turgun dared to enter the war, victory would come, crushing the power of Morgoth, bridging the enmity, and the greatest good would come through the friendship between humans and elves, and Morgoth's servants would no longer be able to harm the world. But if Turgun refused to send troops to fight the war, he should abandon Gondolin and lead his people to the mouth of the Sirian River, where they would build a fleet, find a way back to Verino, and plead with the gods for forgiveness.
Uómu carried out this mission out of his love for the elves, and because he knew that if the people of Gondolin continued to hide behind the barrier, its end would soon come, so that nothing joyful or good in the world could be exempted from morroth's malice.
Turgun, who had long been hidden in Gondolin, and his own people were confident in the secret and indestructible power of Gondolin, and therefore did not want to be disturbed by the outside world, they did not care about humans, and they no longer longed for Verino. Turgong disagreed with what U'omu had borrowed from Turin.
Finally, on the day of the Summer Gate (a major festival of the Gondolins) in 510 A.D., the elves of Gondolin welcomed an army of destruction consisting of Ork, Fire Demons, and Dragons under Morgoth. The "Hidden City" Gangdolin, which had stood for nearly four hundred years under the reign of turgong, the supreme king of the Nodo tribe, fell on this day.
The City of Seven, Gundolin, once flourished, and its destruction was the most terrible of all the city-shattering catastrophes on earth. Neither The Towers of Babylon, Neenweed, nor Troy, nor Roma, the greatest city of mankind, which had changed hands many times, had never seen the horror that had befallen Amongawares and the Noams (Nodos) that day; it was considered the worst of the evil things mirko had done in the world.
■ Left Christopher Tolkien, right J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fall of Gondolin, the last edited work published by Christopher Tolkien, the younger son of J.R. R. Tolkien and the executor of Tolkien's literary legacy, deals with the human Tu'o's sojourn in Gondolin, his union with IlyoIl Caleblindahl, the birth of Eyjarendil, the betrayal of Maigrin, the fall of the city-state, and the escape of the survivors. The story is at the heart of Tolkien's imagination of the First Age.
Readers can learn how Middle-earth came to an end to the First Age through the numerous branches of the various editions of the manuscripts included in this book. In The Fall of Gondolin, the reader can also see how J.R.R. Tolkien's conception of the history he conceived gradually came to light over the years.
The Fall of Gondolin
J.R.R. Tolkien
Christopher Tolkien, eds
[English] Alan Lee Figure
Deng Jiawan Shi Zhongge Du Yunci translated
The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings prequel
The three ancient biographies of Middle-continent are the final chapter, the cornerstone of the entire Middle-continent world
Oscar winner and master of fantasy illustrators
Alan Lee has created 8 color illustrations and 15 black and white illustrations
Christopher Tolkien was the last to collate his father's work
It has drawn a satisfactory end to the combination of the three ancient legends of Zhongzhou
The Elven Diamond
Belen and Lucien
"Hulin's Children"