Tolkien’s ‘The Fall of Gondolin’ is an extension of the tale from ‘The Silmarillion’ edited together by Christopher Tolkien using his father’s notes. The story of Gondolin’s fall and Tuor’s escape from the ruined city opens the first third of the book, and the subsequent sections are made up of other variations of the story found within Tolkien’s papers hence in reading the whole thing it did get a little repetitive. The story is written in a much more archaic language hence is a less accessible story from Middle Earth and also had nowhere near the flourish of ‘Lord of the Rings’, likely why the story was only published posthumously by Christopher rather than something Tolkien chose to publish in his lifetime. It felt a lot more like a history and I thought I was well versed in the history of Middle Earth but I still found myself looking up a lot of characters and places, as knowledge is assumed rather than explained as it is in the more mainstream of Tolkien’s works. Nonetheless I still adore the world of Middle Earth and appreciated exploring another section of it.