The Fall of Gondolin

-Started in 1917, same year as Beren and Lúthien ; while on leave after the battle of the Somme - Third of the 'Great Tales' of the elder days - Quendi: light elves ; Noldoli: Gnomes or deep elves ; Teleri: sea elves - Thingol, never dwelt in Valinor; became king off Doriath; lived in a hall called the Thousand Caves

Valar

Ulmo (Ylmir): Lord of all Waters, mightiest after Manwë Ossë: partner of lady Uinen, lived on the shores of Valinor

Tuor married Idral, Turgons(elf king of Gondolin) daughter in Gar Ainion (Place of the Gods)

What I want out of this book To revisit middle earth at the end of its first age, to see it at its height of power and creativity at to experience the fight before the world faded.