Gondolin

[The Last Ranger]

where was Gondolin, what happened, and how come i never seen it talked about? please respond ASAP

[Radagast The Brown]

THIS IS THE HOBBIT!!! GONDOLIN IS NOT IN THIS STORY!!!!!!!!! :mad:

[nazgul prince]

But the fabled blades of gondolin are in the hobbit.It was a great elven city in the first age.It was located in beleriand which sunk under the sea at the end of the first age.Turgon the high king of the noldor( High Elves, Gnomes, Deep Elves) ruled there.And he weilded the mighty Glamdring.Elrond is a decendant of him.

[Lanelf]

If you want to know more about Gondolin, you'll have to read the Silmarillion. There's a chapter or so about it there.
Lanelf.

[Millane]

THIS IS THE HOBBIT!!! GONDOLIN IS NOT IN THIS STORY!!!!!!!!!
geez radagast get hyped up!!! hehehe

[Radagast The Brown]

If you want to know more about Gondolin, you'll have to read the Silmarillion. There's a chapter or so about it there.
Lanelf.And in UT, the part on tour. and probably in HoMe too.
geez radagast get hyped up!!! heheheIt's really doesn't supposed to be here. It's suppose to be in ME.

[Millane]

so it should Radagast but no need to lose your cool

[Radagast The Brown]

I didn't. I accidently pressed Caps Lock.

[The Lady of Ithilien]

I didn't. I accidently pressed Caps Lock. :D I LOVE the Internet!

The scene in The Hobbit where Elrond tells Gandalf and Thorin the history of the blades becomes even better after reading in other books that Elrond was himself closely descended from the King of Gondolin (Turgon). One likes to imagine that it was a more touching moment than Bilbo at that time could appreciate when Elrond handed that sword back to Gandalf.

[Radagast The Brown]

originally posted by TLoI
:D I LOVE the Internet! Can I ask what's the conection between the fact that you love Internet and the quote?

[The Lady of Ithilien]

Sure. I truly do love the Internet, where misunderstandings are sometimes very easily laid out for all to see, and so cleared up. That seemed to be a classic instance of it.

I hope my remark didn't seem personal or sarcastic, Radagast -- it wasn't meant that way at all. Perhaps I should have included the whole exchange. Sorry!

[Radagast The Brown]

you don't have to be sorry. :) I didn't take it too hard, you know.

[The Lady of Ithilien]

Glad to hear it! :D

[Eothain]

It is not in the hobbit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!

[Lefty Scaevola]

It has a line or two in passing in the Hobbit. Its an ancient city during the first age duriing the Wars of the Jewels (Called Goblin wars in the Hobbit) against Morgoth. It was founded by Turgon, a price of the Noldorin exiles and people with Noldor and Sindar. It was located in a hidden valley cirlcular amists a mass of mountains which had once been a lake bed (It looks lkie and acient cladera) The a a of rocked in the center of the vally on which the city was built. It was likely the highest expresion of Elvish culture ever in Middle Earth. Morgoth captured it nearly 6500 years before the time of the Hobbit.

[Shadowfax]

Originally posted by Eothain
It is not in the hobbit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!! Wasn't that scintillating fact previously established?

[Faramir Took]

Originally posted by Radagast The Brown
THIS IS THE HOBBIT!!! GONDOLIN IS NOT IN THIS STORY!!!!!!!!! :mad:


your wrong - gondolin is mentioned several times in the hobbit. all the swords found in the trolls lair were said to be manufactured in gondolin, and two of those swords, as you know, go on to future greatness, and orc-head cleaving.

[markedel]

But the real question is-since the Hobbit as not set in ME at first publishing, what was Gondolin, aside from a convinient placeholder name of course? Was it really "Gondolin" at first conception?

[Radagast The Brown]

originally posted by Faramir Took
your wrong - gondolin is mentioned several times in the hobbit. all the swords found in the trolls lair were said to be manufactured in gondolin, and two of those swords, as you know, go on to future greatness, and orc-head cleaving. I know that, but Gondolin is about 6000 years before "the hobbit". If someone wants to ask about Gondolin it should be in the Sil or ME. That's all.

[Artanis]

Originally posted by markedel
But the real question is-since the Hobbit as not set in ME at first publishing, what was Gondolin, aside from a convinient placeholder name of course? Was it really "Gondolin" at first conception? Gondolin was certainly already there. Tolkien wrote a story named "The Fall of Gondolin" in 1916-17. A revised (and unfinished) version of this story is given in Unfinished Tales under the name "Of Tuor and his coming to Gondolin."

[Blackboar]

Originally posted by Radagast The Brown
I didn't. I accidently pressed Caps Lock.

That cracked me up:D I thought Radagast was getting totally stressed out over it and I'm just like "Calm down!!" Then I saw that!:D :D :D
(Didn't you look at it before you posted it, or after you posted it?)

[Radagast The Brown]

originayll posted by Blackboar
That cracked me up I thought Radagast was getting totally stressed out over it and I'm just like "Calm down!!" Then I saw that!
(Didn't you look at it before you posted it, or after you posted it?)Actualluy, no, I don't look (usually) at my post before I post it.
And, I wasn't stressed! I just tried to explain what happen. :rolleyes: Afterwards, I could've erase the post and write it again but since she already quoted me....

[markedel]

Ah the joys of the internet LOL. Gotta love it.