# The Fall of Gondolin  ## Metadata - Author: [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] - Full Title: The Fall of Gondolin - Category: #tolkien ## Highlights - Morgoth returns to Angband, and his power and the numbers of his demons and Orcs becomes countless. He forges an iron crown and sets therein the Silmarils, though his hands are burned black by them, and he is never again free from the pain of the burning. The crown he never leaves off for a moment, and he never leaves the deep dungeons of his fortress, governing his vast armies from his deep throne. ([Location 311](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07CFKN31Z&location=311)) - It is said that Ecthelion’s folk there slew more of the goblins than fell ever in all the battles of the Eldalië with that race, and that his name is a terror among them to this latest day, and a warcry to the Eldar. ([Location 965](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07CFKN31Z&location=965)) - But it is not for thy valour only that I send thee, but to bring into the world a hope beyond thy sight, and a light that shall pierce the darkness.’ ([Location 1889](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07CFKN31Z&location=1889)) - For heart that is pitiless counteth not the power that pity hath, of which stern anger may be forged and a lightning kindled before which mountains fall. ([Location 2931](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07CFKN31Z&location=2931))