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A review by kerrycat
The Fall of Gondolin by J.R.R. Tolkien
5.0
this fed both the Tolkien lover as well as the textual bibliographer in me - according to CT, this story is the very first of ME that JRRT is known to have written (after the Somme, when he had sick leave). it is First Age, prequel to my favorite JRRT, The Silmarillion, and as always, I am in awe of our great fortune in having CT's brilliance and devotion to his father's legacy, without which we would not have so much of Middle Earth in our hands.
he has included each version found of this sad but telling tale, with notes as to the condition in which it was found (handwritten? typed? erased? written-over? barely decipherable?) and textual changes between them (and how those changes are significant).
CT is now 94 and states that this is it for him - but didn't he say that after Beren and Luthien?
he has included each version found of this sad but telling tale, with notes as to the condition in which it was found (handwritten? typed? erased? written-over? barely decipherable?) and textual changes between them (and how those changes are significant).
CT is now 94 and states that this is it for him - but didn't he say that after Beren and Luthien?