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A fair city on the hill of Amon Gwareth in the valley of Tumladen, ringed by the Echoriath and entered by the hidden way.
History
Founded by Turgon and peopled by Noldor and Sindar; it endured longest of the Elven realms of Beleriand until Maeglin’s treachery opened it to Morgoth.
People & inhabitants
Noldor and Sindar of Turgon’s people.
Significance
Gondolin stands for hidden beauty preserved against a hostile world; its fall ends the last great refuge of the First Age.
Connections
Its survivors, among them Eärendil, reached the Havens of Sirion.
Events here
Figures of this place
Sources
The Silmarillion · 1977
Posthumously edited. Contains the Ainulindalë, Valaquenta, Quenta Silmarillion, Akallabêth and Of the Rings of Power.
Unfinished Tales · 1980
Expanded and alternative accounts of the First, Second and Third Ages.
The Fall of Gondolin · 2018
Assembled versions of the earliest tale of the First Age.