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The Elf Ecthelion leads the charge against the Orcs, and fights Gothmog, the greatest Balrog; they wound each other and both fall into the king's fountain in Gondolin; both drown. Bruce compares this to how Aeneas rallies the Trojans, but fails, and sees king Priam perish. [13]
Freeman notes that Tolkien describes the Elf-lord Ecthelion's resistance, fighting the Balrog Gothmog and his Orcs to the death during the fall of Gondolin, as "the most stubborn-valiant" [T 12] of the tales of the Noldor, commenting that the "hyphenated word might in fact be a direct authorial gloss on the idea of Northern courage." [37]
"The species name is derived from Gothmog, a commander within the evil host of Mordor, and oides, latin suffix signifying 'resembling'." [86] Macrostyphlus gandalf Morrone, 1994: Beetle: Gandalf [87] Semicytherura balrogi Brouwers, 1994: Ostracod: Balrogs "After the Balrog, an evil character in J.R.R. Tolkien's adventures of Middle Earth" [88]
The Fall of Gondolin is a 2018 book of fantasy fiction by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by his son Christopher. [1] [2] The story is one of what Tolkien called the three "Great Tales" from the First Age of Middle-earth; the other two are Beren and Lúthien and The Children of Húrin.
During the wars of Beleriand, Gothmog (the Lord of Balrogs) had a bodyguard of trolls. During the Nírnaeth Arnoediad, the Battle of Unnumbered Tears, in which Morgoth defeated the united armies of Elves, Men, and Dwarves, the great warrior Húrin, a Man, faced Gothmog's trolls to protect the retreat of the Elven king Turgon. Morgoth's order to ...
An encounter in the Gladden Fields sends Gandalf and the player back to Mordor, just as the forces of Gondor advance on Minas Morgul. The player joins Faramir's White Company and, with the help of Gandalf and the Rangers, manages to defeat Gothmog, Lieutenant of Morgul and second-in-command to the Witch-king of Angmar.
As he lies dying, Gothmog, the lieutenant of Minas Morgul, sees him upon the floor and cruelly impales him with a spear, killing him outright, before announcing to his army that the Age of Men is over. Madril's name has no Sindarin meaning since it is a transposition of the middle letters of Mardil Voronwë, the first ruling Steward of Gondor.
The Children of Húrin is an epic fantasy novel which forms the completion of a tale by J. R. R. Tolkien.He wrote the original version of the story in the late 1910s, revising it several times later, but did not complete it before his death in 1973.