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To defeat Gondolin, Melkor (at first called Melko) uses monsters, Orcs and Balrogs, supported by "beasts like snakes and dragons of irresistible might that should overcreep the Encircling Hills and lap that plain and its fair city in flame and death". The monstrous beasts are not of flesh and blood,
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The scholar of heraldry Cătălin Hriban writes that the emblems of the houses of Gondolin are simple and figurative, depicting familiar real-world objects. He notes that standard British texts on heraldry describe similar devices. He comments that Maeglin the traitor, of the House of Moles, fittingly
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carried the Greeks into Troy, where they set fire to it, paralleled by the fire-serpents which carried "Balrogs in hundreds" into Gondolin. Tolkien's serpents are matched by the great serpents with "burning eyes, fiery and suffused with blood, their tongues a-flicker out of hissing maws" which kill
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that they might flow ... around and above all obstacles", and are armoured so that they clang hollowly when bombarded or attacked with fire. Garth comments that these are not so much like mythical dragons as "the tanks of the Somme", and that to the story's Elf-narrator, a combustion engine would
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but are made by "smiths and sorcerers". There are three kinds, Garth explains: heavy, slow, bronze dragons that can break gaps in Gondolin's walls; fiery monsters, unable to climb the steep smooth hill on which the city sits; and iron dragons in which Orc-soldiers can ride, and which travel on "
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and in early versions of the story iron machines powered by "internal fires". These are used to carry soldiers, to surmount difficult obstacles, and to defeat fortifications. Idril, noted for her intuition, had prepared a secret route out of Gondolin prior to the siege. While her father Turgon
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Alexander Bruce writes that Tolkien's tale parallels Virgil's account, but varies the story. Thus, Morgoth attacks while Gondolin's guard is lowered during a great feast, whereas the Trojans were celebrating the Greeks' apparent retreat, with the additional note of treachery. The
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and his sons. Aeneas and his wife Creusa become separated during their escape; her ghost pleads with him to leave when he searches for her, and he travels to Italy; in contrast, Tuor and Idril escape to Sirion together, eventually sailing from there to
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is thrown down from Troy's walls. Tolkien changes the outcome: Eärendil resists, and Tuor appears just in time to rescue him by throwing Maeglin from the walls instead.
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sends an army over the Encircling Mountains during Gondolin's festival of The Gates of Summer, and sacks the city with relative ease. Morgoth's army consists of
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Maeglin's House of Moles wore plain black: "Sable was their harness, and they bore no sign or emblem, but their round caps of steel were covered with moleskin."
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by the king's nephew, Maeglin; and of its subsequent siege and catastrophic destruction by Morgoth's armies. It also relates the flight of the fugitives to the
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Each House of Gondolin had its own emblem; in the House of the Harp, "a harp of silver shone in their blazonry upon a field of black."
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states that Tolkien wrote his 1917 story "The Fall of Gondolin" in hospital after returning to England from the
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or the Secret Place, for I am hidden from the eyes of Melko; but they who love me most greatly call me
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has the colour black; like the animal, his people are miners, used to living underground in the dark.
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perishes as his tower is destroyed, Idril flees the city, defended by her husband Tuor, a prince of
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states that the active male Elves of Gondolin belong to one of the 11 "Houses" or
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that is greatest among Men, saw such terror as fell that day upon Amon Gwareth".
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Tolkien explained its origin in his "Name-list to "The Fall of Gondolin" thus: "
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words in more or less Sindarized forms. Thus the city was usually called
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Tolkien appears to have based one scene on another classical source,
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dialect, containing regional elements and words adapted from another
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similarly likens the mechanical dragons to vehicles driven by
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Tolkien stated that "This differed from the standard [
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Escape from wreck of a kingdom, creation of a new one
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where Tolkien fought on the Somme in September 1916
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Index

Maeglin
Gondolin Cave

Tom Loback
Tolkien's legendarium
Elves
First Age
Middle-earth
Beleriand
Fall of Gondolin
Men
Morgoth
Havens of Sirion
Tuor and the Elf Idril
Eärendil
tank
Battle of the Somme
Troy
ancient Greek literature
Virgil
Aeneid
Cassandra
Helen of Troy
Trojan War

Beleriand
First Age
Beleriand
Middle-earth
First Age

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