Tolkien’s Gondolin falls into place for Harper

HarperCollins has announced J R R Tolkien’s The Fall of Gondolin will be published in the UK in August 2018.

The title, edited by the author’s son Christopher Tolkien and illustrated by Alan Lee, completes the trilogy of connected Middle-earth stories, following The Children of Húrin (2007) and Beren and Lúthien (2017).

The novel will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the US, with a number of translations signed too.