J.R.R. Tolkien give-up the ghost in 1973 , but 45 eld later , his old writings are still retrieve their mode into reader ’s hands . The latest is call The Fall of Gondolin and it ’ll be out in August .
Tolkien wrote The Fall of Gondolin back in 1916 , while in the hospital after the Battle of the Somme . fructify in Middle - earth long before The Lord of the Rings serial publication , it ’s about “ a reluctant submarine sandwich who turns into a genuine hero , ” Tolkien historiographer John Garth secern The Guardian . “ It ’s a template for everything Tolkien wrote afterwards , ” he uphold . “ It has a dark lord , our first face-off with orcs and balrogs , it ’s really Tolkien limber up for what he would be doing by and by . ”
The page were edited by Tolkien ’s Logos Christopher Tolkien , and the rule book will have illustrations by far-famed Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings creative person Alan Lee . Plus , the level is seemingly Tolkien ’s “ bad battle tale outside of The Lord of the Rings . ”
The Guardian has much more detail on the story of the book , and you’re able to read that below .
[ The GuardianviaVulture ]
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