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The Fall of Gondolin - J.R.R. Tolkien, ed Christopher Tolkien – HarperCollins, 2018 / Tolkien, Maker of Middle Earth - Catherine McIlwaine - Bodleian Library, 2018
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Note: In a slightly disturbing case of precognition, I wrote this shortly before hearing the sad news of the death of Christopher Tolkien. May he rest in peace.

The Fall of Gondolin is the final volume of Christopher Tolkien's extensive collections of his father's Middle Earth off-cuts. I have only read a couple of them, but having seen the exhibition Tolkien, Maker of Middle Earth and read the accompanying book, I can see that he was a chip off the old block in his scrupulous scholarship and slightly crazed attention to detail.
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