The Tale of the Fall of Gondolin (Silmarillion) - Part II
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- The second part of the tale of the Fall of Gondolin is filled with battle, courage, sorrow and hope for the future of Middle-earth. Thank you all so much for watching, I hope you guys enjoyed it. Let me know your thoughts about this story in the comments below, and I’ll see you all again next week! As always, a great thanks to the online artists whose visual works made this video possible! If you are one of the artists, please let me know and I will post your name and a link to your work in this description!
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Hell no, Morgoth had no intention of keeping his promises!
So fell the greatest elven kingdom of the first age. Beautiful story telling yoisten.
I'm still reading through my copy of Fall of Gondolin. So many parts have brought me to tears already!
Buck up!
Ecthelion of the Fountain single-handedly slayed 3 Balrogs before loosing his life slaying Gothmog, Lord of the Balrogs. This was after hours of fighting and being wounded, Ecthelion needs some love! Even the cry of his name made the entire attacking army stop momentarily. Ecthelion! Destroyer of Balrogs! Pretty sure the Gondolins survivers would never have made it out without Ecthelion.
It's such a peaceful sensation listening to you tell these stories. I really like them and I really hope you keep doing them! Thank you😊
This will be my bed time story as I was going to sleep. Thank you as always for the videos!
Balrogs riding Dragons? Holy shit that's badass. I remember Peter Jackson mentioning that in passing in one of the commentaries of the Hobbit Trilogy Extended Editions, but he didn't mention that happening in the Fall of Gondolin.
BALROGS. RIDING. DRAGONS.
Probably my favorite story of the silmarillion!😄
Honestly my favorite story in all of Middle Earth
Gondolin, osgilath, armor, Rivendale, numenor, and minas tirith etc are all beautiful places and more just seeing if in real life would be awestruck and unspeakable sight to see 🥰, I had a dream once that I was a immortal god being with super strength like superman, super speed and flight, could heal anything and anyone with a touch make things come alive with a touch , turn anything or anyone to any creature I wanted and could shoot solar beams out of my hands etc and brought enlightenment and prosperity to middle earth after sauron died, I tamed Shelob by beating her up and the people of Gondor had a huge supply of spider silk to make elaborate fine clothes, dresses, shirts, pants , hats and rope and tapestries and it's spider silk it made their clothes bullet proof basically being safer if attacked and made gondor more wealthy and went to moria to help clear out the orcs for the dwarves to recolonize it and Killed the watcher lake monster at moria and brought it to gondor and people had a big feast eating lots of sushi that night and boy did they feast and for some reason they teriyaki, orange and Wassabi sauces but I couldn't eat it 🤢, so i asked them to just cook me a whole beef cow filling a table full of beef etc with a pile of melted cheese, ale and pipe weed and we celebrated , Me and Gandalf had a blowing smoke contest with our smoke pipes, and just watching the people live simply, happy and blessed lives made me feel happy and content and I'll come around once every few months or so with mighty catches I get from strong monsters and creatures giving to them to feast on, make fine furs and clothes, jewelry etc, or find a big stash of gold, jewels or metals that I find or mine and so forth and so forth just living as middle earth protector and sustainer lol 😎😙
Another great video, I've been waiting all week for part 2
Thank you soooo much for your work. So glad i stumbled across you, you are my new favourite channel!
Thank you so much, Yoystan, for you efforts and the really high quality Videos!!
I love your voice and narration, it's just so perfect for story telling.
The artwork for your videos are brilliant work 👍👍 I've been waiting all week for the 2nd video... Great!
Great video, The elves that stayed behind must have been fierce and very brave to have faced the entire threat melkor. There sacrifice gave the precious time needed to allow Tuor to get the rest of the elves to safety.
Another amazing video! Keep up the good work Yoystan! And boy am I excited for the next one!
Hell yes. Ive been waiting for this video!!
Nice to finally know the full story of Gondolin. Keep up the good work my friend!
Nicely done! I greatly enjoyed your telling of this tale, and I look forward to reading the new book in full.
love listening to these, theyre so chill :)
Such a great story...thanks so much for telling!
Always was, is and will be the greatest story from the whole legendarium
It's a really close second to Beren and Lúthien for me. Beren and Lúthien is the greatest story in all of fiction.
@@just_cade just finished that story for the 10th time or so absolutely amazing. I do think Turin Turambars story is the best for me anyway then beren and lúthien
Awesome video!!!! Great work on your part. Thanks.
Thanks for another great vid!
The Fall of Gondolin is such a tragedy. And it really goes to show what jealousy can to imo. But the battle itself is quite cool! :)
Gondolin would have fallen anyway... Morgoth was basically invencible back then...
I love this channel! I can't believe I've only just discovered this channel a few days a ago! Please keep up the good work!
Didn’t know there was so much more to trilogies. Love this channel.👍🏼
Quality content as always Yoystan, Keep it up friend!
Great work my friend.
Beautiful and well told.
Ah, Gondolin, the height of high fantasy!
Yes gondolin was a beautiful paradise sounding place 😙,
I had a dream once that I was a immortal god being with super strength like superman, super speed and flight, could heal anything and anyone with a touch make things come alive with a touch , turn anything or anyone to any creature I wanted and could shoot solar beams out of my hands etc and brought enlightenment and prosperity to middle earth after sauron died, I tamed Shelob by beating her up and the people of Gondor had a huge supply of spider silk to make elaborate fine clothes, dresses, shirts, pants , hats and rope and tapestries and it's spider silk it made their clothes bullet proof basically being safer if attacked and made gondor more wealthy and went to moria to help clear out the orcs for the dwarves to recolonize it and Killed the watcher lake monster at moria and brought it to gondor and people had a big feast eating lots of sushi that night and boy did they feast and for some reason they teriyaki, orange and Wassabi sauces but I couldn't eat it 🤢, so i asked them to just cook me a whole beef cow filling a table full of beef etc with a pile of melted cheese, ale and pipe weed and we celebrated , Me and Gandalf had a blowing smoke contest with our smoke pipes, and just watching the people live simply, happy and blessed lives made me feel happy and content and I'll come around once every few months or so with mighty catches I get from strong monsters and creatures giving to them to feast on, make fine furs and clothes, jewelry etc, or find a big stash of gold, jewels or metals that I find or mine and so forth and so forth just living as middle earth protector and sustainer lol 😎😙
Yes gondolin was a beautiful paradise sounding place 😙,
I had a dream once that I was a immortal god being with super strength like superman, super speed and flight, could heal anything and anyone with a touch make things come alive with a touch , turn anything or anyone to any creature I wanted and could shoot solar beams out of my hands etc and brought enlightenment and prosperity to middle earth after sauron died, I tamed Shelob by beating her up and the people of Gondor had a huge supply of spider silk to make elaborate fine clothes, dresses, shirts, pants , hats and rope and tapestries and it's spider silk it made their clothes bullet proof basically being safer if attacked and made gondor more wealthy and went to moria to help clear out the orcs for the dwarves to recolonize it and Killed the watcher lake monster at moria and brought it to gondor and people had a big feast eating lots of sushi that night and boy did they feast and for some reason they teriyaki, orange and Wassabi sauces but I couldn't eat it 🤢, so i asked them to just cook me a whole beef cow filling a table full of beef etc with a pile of melted cheese, ale and pipe weed and we celebrated , Me and Gandalf had a blowing smoke contest with our smoke pipes, and just watching the people live simply, happy and blessed lives made me feel happy and content and I'll come around once every few months or so with mighty catches I get from strong monsters and creatures giving to them to feast on, make fine furs and clothes, jewelry etc, or find a big stash of gold, jewels or metals that I find or mine and so forth and so forth just living as middle earth protector and sustainer lol 😎😙
I love hearing about Glorfindel. Wonderful video!
Thank you again - it's a bright light in a dark part of the story :D
Hello Yoystan. Thx for another great one....
epic tale well done.
Ive lost track how many times ive watched/listened to your vids. Sometimes I'll listen to them as I fall asleep because your voice is so soothing. You are my favorite LOTR lore TH-camr. Cant wait for next week's!
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Thank you
Truly awesome coverage of this great Fall
May your channel stay untroubled by the Darkness of Morgoth or his kindred
Great storytelling. But spoiled by bland moral platitudes at the end.
Love it! Keep it up
My wife and I just discovered your channel--well done! Keep up the great work! Timely video series, this; we just got Christopher/JRR's Fall of Gondolin.
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Well done!
Oh, how is it said? There are wolves and there are sheep... but there is yet another kind: the wolf-hound. Sometimes, what might have been a mighty aggressor chooses instead to be a guardian. Tuor and Glorfindel made this choice, to serve and protect and drive back and defeat the destroyers, even if they might also seem to fall with the foe. Upon licking the wounds of harsh times, or when such wounds are renewed to new health after long contemplations among the spirits of the dead, these guardians return in various forms to once again defend the people, whether in their own body or in the manifestation of their descendants.
In the LotR, there were two unblemished and deliberate heroes of this kind, Aragorn and Glorfindel. Aragorn was the descendant, and Glorfindel was the returned. No power of darkness could stand against their fate, for they had embraced the highest calling to preserve and return in their own being, regardless of histories or artifices. It was by their own souls that they truly worked, not by forged enhancements. This purity of calling, not imposed upon them but rather taken up deliberately as choice, is what made them unstoppable.
Each guardian must choose their final outcome. Glorfindel returned on a grey ship to heaven as the eternal champion. Aragorn remained with his subjects as the mortal caretaker and inspirer of later generations. Of these two, one is not greater than the other, for each had found a way to reach beyond the limitations of life and death. When we find ourselves in battle against the evils of the world, let us accept that we may choose either path, and in either way we apply ourselves to what is beyond self or time, fulfilling all that fate has offered us. The virtue is not just in the appearances, but rather in the decision to carry on.
Amazing video!
Love the vids! Esp. The cheesy guitar music at the end with the life lesson takeaway ;-) well done, keep em comin
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Hey Yoysan, I haven't heard A Men of the West video in a long time! It still amazes me how much your voice lends to the store you tell! I think JRR Tolkien himself would enjoy listening to you because you do that Good of a job. Merry Christmas brother! Thanks for the gift of narration on such wonderful stories and the passion you put into your videos!
I love how every video has a Jerry Springer-esque Final Thought about the moral of the story. It's very sweet.
Keep up the great work, friend.
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Had to make a second comment because I watched this video twice and each time the commercial was Ian McKellen doing King Lear now that is good commercial placement because I watched the whole thing twice instead of skipping the ad
I bought mine teo days ago! the artwork is very well crafted
If they don’t make this story part of the new tv show I’m going to b so disappointed 😡
It’s got everything and is one of the turning points from the old eras of middle earth to the ones we know in lotr
Feels like reading something from a long lost history of our world.....ugh so good
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Just in case not everyone knows the names of the lords of Gondolin;
King Turgon - dies
Maeglin - dies (betrayed Turgon)
Tuor Eldacar
Ecthelion - dies
Glorfindel - dies
Egalmoth - killed in the Third Kinslaying
Penlod - dies
Rog (or Rôg) - dies
Duilin - dies
Galdor
Salgant - unknown (betrayed Turgon)
Ecthelion one hitted me hard 💔 Rôg was also badass
Nicee. This is good!
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Love that maeglin faced the same fate as his father.
I am rereading the Silmarillion again and I only properly noticed this time that, at the end of the story of Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin, Tuor became one of the Eldar!
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Pretty cool to learn that Sting (Bilbo/Frodo's sword) was forged in Gondolin and survived utter destruction. I love how even if you don't know of the Silmarillion or other unfinished works... Little pockets of middle earth history show up in the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit. Balrogs of Morgoth, Grond, Earendil, Glorfindel being a war hero and slaying a powerful balrog, Including jewels, and heirlooms that span millennia of history find themselves into the main story.
Great video. As always. Gondolin never had a chance. All of Morgoths force centered on the city. Such a great story. Do you wonder if Gondolin is maybe a reference to London in the war or many other historical cities and their sieges. We will never know.
It is London in modern times. Infested from within.
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Thank you for Part 2 and the message, Mellon!!!
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I hope they make a movie series about the Silmarillion. They would be epic!
Alright I know that I'm 2 hours late to this party but I was delayed by a band of orcs and goblins. Took me awhile but I managed to sneak past them (Even slew a few of them too). Great job Yoyston, keep up the good work. Now I must return to my study and continue writing my own story. Until next time Yoyston I bid you STAND! MEN OF THE WEST!!!!
Fantastic tale, excellent video, but I think you should have focused a bit more on the battle tanking the found tales, the lost tales and the new fall of Gindolin book as source
Tolkien's lore and his work are amazing and neverending. I love those stories. Where did you find that image of noble houses of Gondolin?
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Men of the west you make awesome Lord of the rings videos and your channel is one of my top favourites for Lord of the rings videos about the lore that I always find intriguing and interesting to learn about. Keep up the good work bro
There's just one thing about Gondolin that just doesn't make sense to me: For a city with a location that was meant to be a secret from Morgoth and his forces, Gondolin was very close the Anfauglith, the large desert plain that lay immediately south of Morgoth's fortress of Angband. Why was this?
If I could make a suggestion, there is a Tolkien book that is highly undervalued, its book called 'On Fairy-Stories' an essay which discusses the fairy-story as a literary form. In that book, Tolkien talks about narrative, story lines, and other authors, points of view regarding fairy tales and stories related to them. It is an eye-opener for writers like me and also a window to Tolkien's mind on the subject of fairy tails.
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I forgot about the traitor elf ....good for another story
Someone should make a movie of the fall of Gondolin!!!
Morgoth was never going to keep his part of the bargain with that betrayer.
If the Eagles were the guardians of the Encircling mountains, After Manwe himself had given the eagles the task of keeping watch on Morgoth, why then was there no warning as the forces of Morgoth approached Gondolin? Wouldn't the eagles have spotted the Armies of Morgoth as they approached Gondolin and warned Turgon of their approach? I have always wondered about this. If the eagles had warned Gondolin of their danger, wouldn't the outcome have been different? Also, why didn't the eagles do all they could to defend the elves of Gondolin? After all, the eagle fought at the Battle of Five Armies in the Hobbit, and they also fought at the last battle with Aragorn in the LOTR's.
This should've been a trilogy
Nice one I read the silmarillion probably like 100 * I think you have the dates wrong though the first age began many hundreds of years before Gondolin was built. Elediel was born in the year 507 of Gondolin. Year one being the first year that Gondolin was to become a city
I have a question, wouldn’t the pronunciation of Idril be Eedreel? Just correct me if I’m wrong, tanks and great video!
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Ohhh...imagine it all in a movie...???
The stand alone book is excellent as well
Gondolin is basically Switzerland in real world. Always neutral even when war is raging all around. Hidden in the mountains. Absolutely beautiful landscape.
How about a video of the top 5 changes made from book to film that you like and top five you dislike?
A fun idea for an alternate story. What if during the war of wrath, instead of hiding in his mines, Morgoth strode forth along the battlefield with his dragons. I mean, we barely see him in combat at all, and from what I read during his fight with Fingolfin, he was a monster to behold. So, what if during the final battle of the 1st age, he strode forth atop one of his winged dragons to face his brothers and sisters for the fate of Arda. Plus I think a duel between Morgoth and another Valar (maybe Manwe or Tulkas ) would be a great addition. Plz
He had a bad foot after the duel with Fingolfin
You know you are a new kind of fucked when you see Balrogs riding fucking dragons towards you.
No matter what you build, it’s gonna get destroyed by some spicy bois, some bad lads and their doges.
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Not ashamed to admit I teared up when watching this, The Fall of Gondolin is pure poetry and the sheer extensiveness of this battle is overwhelming! It also shows that elves were pretty badass in the fact that they fought Morgoth's demons head on and slayed a few, selflessly sacrificing themselves in the process.
yostan sounds like the name of an elf.
Men of the West, I would like to know your opinion on whether or not Morgoth would have kept his promise.
Hey Yoystan, ever thought about reference the source of the pictures?
The Tale of the Fall of Gondolin also shows that the life of the people is more important than the city. In the end, Turgon was too proud to realise that and as a consequence fell with his city, buried beneath the remnants of his own palace. Idril on the other hand was far more concerned with the safety of her people, so she built her secret escape tunnel. Ecthelion's and Glorfindel's sacrifice and Tuor's deeds were indeed heroic , the Fall of Gondolin could've been far more disastrous if it wasn't for Idril's foresight
Just curious, is there any information about the people of Rhun or Harad other than that written in the lord of the rings itself?
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