A new The Lord the Rings book The Fall of Gondolin, edited by J.R.R. Tolkien’s son Christopher Tolkien, will be released later this year.

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Per The Guardian , The Fall of Gondolin is said to be “the first real story” of Middle-earth and it's coming out in August. The story was written by Tolkien while he was in the hospital, and follows the evil Morgoth battling the sea-god Ulmo.Morgoth is trying to discover and destroy the hidden city of Gondolin, while Ulmo is supporting the elves – the Noldor – who reside in it. One of the elves, Tuor, is the main protagonist who sets out to find Gondolin and meets the sea-god Ulmo along the way.“It’s a quest story with a reluctant hero who turns into a genuine hero – it’s a template for everything Tolkien wrote afterwards,” John Garth said, author of Tolkien and the Great War. “It has a dark lord, our first encounter with orcs and balrogs – it’s really Tolkien limbering up for what he would be doing later.”The Fall of Gondolin also contains Tolkien’s “biggest battle narrative outside of The Lord of the Rings ," according to Garth. It's also one of the author's three “great tales” of the Elder Days, alongside Beren and Lúthien and The Children of Húrin.For more on Lord of the Rings, read about Amazon's ambitious series, which will reportedly be at least five seasons long with the first two seasons potentially costing as much as $500 million

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