![]() ![]() In The Fall of Gondolin, Tolkien writes that his name "meaneth Goldtress for his hair was golden". The Fall of Gondolin relates that "Glorfindel and the Balrog" became an Elven proverb to describe great skill and courage in battle. His body is buried under a mound of stones, set there by the great eagle Thorondor, who lifted him up from the abyss. Glorfindel duels and kills the Balrog, but is himself killed. However, they are ambushed by enemies, including a Balrog demon. The survivors pass through the Encircling Mountains above Gondolin. After fighting in the city's defence, Glorfindel escapes together with Tuor, Idril, Eärendil and many others. In the original Fall of Gondolin, he is called the chief of the House of the Golden Flower. As his ideas evolved, Tolkien wrote about this event various times, and it appears in compressed form in The Silmarillion, when many of Tolkien's original ideas had been superseded or abandoned.įrom the beginning, Glorfindel appears as a noble lord, known as one of King Turgon's chief lieutenants. It was the first part of The Book of Lost Tales to be written, in 1916–17. ![]() Glorfindel first appears in Tolkien's fantasy in The Fall of Gondolin about the conquest of the Elven city Gondolin by the Dark Lord Morgoth. ![]()
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