{"id":10969,"date":"2018-04-26T19:33:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T01:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/?p=10969"},"modified":"2018-04-26T19:33:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T01:33:17","slug":"new-tolkien-book-fall-of-gondolin-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/2018\/04\/26\/new-tolkien-book-fall-of-gondolin-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"New Tolkien Book | Fall of Gondolin Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThus it was in <\/em>Gondolin<\/em><\/a>; and amid all the bliss of that realm, while its glory lasted, a dark seed of evil was sown,\u201d \u2013<\/em>J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion.<\/p>\n

HarperCollins publishing company announced that a new J.R.R. Tolkien book titled \u201cThe Fall of Gondolin\u201d will be released August 30. The story will add to Tolkien\u2019s world of Middle Earth, taking place long before the events in the \u201cThe Hobbit\u201d or \u201cThe Lord of the Rings.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was excited to hear that another book is coming out,\u201d junior Luke Diles said. \u201cIt is the story of an elven city and how it falls apart because of an elf going to the dark side.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tolkien previously told the story of the elven city Gondolin in his previous book \u201cThe Silmarillion,\u201d and it was also mentioned in his collection of stories called the \u201cUnfinished Tales.\u201d However, when the story was told in \u201cThe Silmarillion,\u201d it was given in textbook style.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a portion of \u2018The Silmarillion\u2019 that is expanded,\u201d senior Jackson Lake said. \u201cIt doesn’t really cover as deep as it actually is (in \u2018The Silmarillion\u2019).\u201d<\/p>\n

According to HarperCollin\u2019s description of the novel, the main antagonist of \u201cThe Fall of Gondolin\u201d is Morgoth, known in Tolkein\u2019s world as the \u201cuttermost evil.\u201d Tolkien\u2019s stories say he fell from the rest of Valar not long after the creation of their world. After discovering the city\u2019s existence, he attacked the city with armies of creatures consisting of orcs, dragons and Balrogs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the story that Tolkien wrote that defined the taste for what would be \u2018Lord of the Rings,\u2019\u201d Lake said. \u201cI would assume it\u2019s going to cover (what takes place) before Gondolin and then through the betrayal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Fall of Gondolin\u201d was compiled and edited by J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s son, Christopher Tolkien who edited \u201cChildren of Hurin\u201d in 2007 and \u201cBeren and L\u00fathien<\/a>\u201d in 2017 both being his father\u2019s unpublished works. Artist Allen Lee will also return to the series to illustrate the novel.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was actually one of his earliest entries into the lore of Middle Earth,\u201d senior Caleb Russel said. \u201cIt pre-dates \u2018The Lord of the Rings\u2019 and \u2018The Hobbit.\u2019 When Tolkien was hurt at the Battle of Somme, he wrote a lot as a form of therapy.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to The New York Times, Tolkien was a second lieutenant in the British Expeditionary Force during World War I. Nineteen-thousand two-hundred and forty British soldiers lost their lives at the Battle of Somme in 1916, making it the most lethal event in British military history.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it\u2019s anything like \u2018The Children of Hurin,\u2019 I know I’ll enjoy it,\u201d Russell said. \u201cChristopher Tolkien has an ability to compile his father\u2019s material really well. It could possibly become a best seller.\u201d<\/p>\n

The book available for preorder on Amazon and HaperCollins\u2019 website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThus it was in Gondolin; and amid all the bliss of that realm, while its glory lasted, a dark seed of evil was sown,\u201d \u2013J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion. HarperCollins publishing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15100,"featured_media":10970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10971,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10969\/revisions\/10971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}