The House of the King, leader: King Turgon himself
The House of the White Wing, leader: Turgon's son-in-law Tuor(E's grandfather)
The house of the mole, Leader: Maeglin (a renegade clan)
The House of the Fountain, leader: ECT Helion
The house of the golden flower, leader: Glorfindel
The house of the hammer of wrath, Leader: Rog (mostly with a hammer)
The House of the Tree: Leader: Galdor(Legolas is here)
The House of the Swallow, Leader: Duilin (skilled with bows and arrows)
The House of the Heavenly Arch, Leader: Egalmoth (also known as house of the rainbow)
The house of the harp, leader: Salgant
The house of the pillar &; The House of the Tower of Snow, led by Penlod
Morgoth, coincided with Gondolin's festival "Gates of Summer, Tarnin Austa". According to tradition, all residents have to wait quietly from midnight until dawn to welcome the arrival of summer, and this day is no exception. Just as the sun had just set and the whole city was preparing for their celebration under the silver light, the sky in the north was suddenly lit up and immediately turned red. An army composed of efreet, fire-drake, Orcs and Goblin, led by Gothmog, the leader of efreet, began to attack.
after the initial panic, the leaders of each family gathered their subordinates and gathered in the palace for an emergency meeting (including Glorfindel) presided over by Turgon. At this time, it was still four hours before midnight. At the meeting, most leaders, including Tuor, advocated breaking through, but Maeglin, who betrayed Gondolin to Morgoth, advised everyone to hold on to the city, because he didn't want anyone to escape, so as not to be retaliated by survivors after his betrayal was exposed in the future. Knowing that Turgon loved Gondonlin deeply, he said, "Oh, my king, are you going to give this beautiful city and all its wealth to our enemies?" Salgant also agrees with Maeglin. He is not a traitor, but his cowardice makes him think it is safer to hide in a solid wall than to break through and run to the plains and mountains outside. In the end, Turgon adopted Maeglin's advice, and all the soldiers in the city went to their posts to start the battle of guarding the city. (If we break through from the beginning, maybe many people will die less, but it's only possible. T_T)
At this time, the enemy had already reached the Amon Gwareth, the hill of Watch, where Gondolin was located. Although the stone wall temporarily blocked them, the fire snakes made of copper and iron specially prepared by the fire dragon and Morgoth roasted the Gondolin River and the water source in the city until it was boiling and smoking. Many weak women and children fainted in the steam, and the strong soldiers felt weak and weak because of a lot of sweating. Only the Fountain of the King in the center of the city has not been affected.
Soon, the north gate of Gondolin was washed away by the enemy, and countless Orcs and other monsters swarmed in from the gap. The defense here is the Hammer family of Rog and the Tree family of Galdor. Rog shouted and led the subordinates of the two families to rush at the enemy. They waved hammers and sticks in their hands and swept away at the Orcs in front of them in the autumn wind, and the sound of hitting rang through the Encircling Mountains around Gondolin. At the same time, the arrows and darts of the Swallow and Arch families poured in like a storm, killing a large number of enemies and many of their own compatriots. However, there are too many Orcs, and the soldiers guarding the city are forced to retreat bit by bit.
Duilin of Swallow family fell first. He was swept by Balrog's fire whip and fell from the city wall to the bottom of Wangshan Mountain. The flames emitted by Balrog and salamanders swept across the sky and fell into the city, igniting a raging fire behind the guarding army, destroying the garden grass and burning the white houses to black. Angry Rog led his family to counterattack the enemy, wedged into the other side's position and went straight for Balrog. With incredible courage, the elves snatched the fire whip from Balrog's hand and in turn tore it apart. Before that, no Balrog had ever been killed in a battle with people or elves, but today they have fallen one after another. Rog soldiers rushed to Tumladin plain outside the city, destroying seven times their own enemies until they died in the last one.
The enemy returned to the city again, occupying several city gates and some city walls. Swallow and Rainbow families who were originally on the city walls suffered heavy casualties. In the following street fighting, Penlod died with many subordinates of Pillar and Tower family. The enemy soon attacked the Place of Well near the Palace Square in the center of the city. However, the losses of the enemy far exceeded the original expectation. They decided to consolidate the victory first and destroy the city with fire as much as possible. Just as they were getting ready for action, Turgon sent Fountain family members to support them (they actually played flutes, my god, fairies, you are so cute @ _ @). With the call of Ecthelion, the soldiers of Fountain family drew their swords and rushed into Goblin's position. It is said that the people of Ecthelion killed more Goblin in this battle than all the previous wars combined, and his name has become a cry of spirits in the battle for generations, which will always make Goblin appall.
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Soon after, Tuor also came with Wing family to fight alongside Ecthelion. Tuor went home to settle his wife and son after the meeting, only to find that Maeglin was attacking them and even throwing Earendil into the fire. The angry Tuor killed Maeglin and wiped out his men after a fierce battle, and finally rushed back to the front battlefield. At this time, the dragons of Morgoth have entered the city, and their huge bodies have knocked down the city walls. Many warriors of Swallow and Arch were killed and smashed to death, and many of the remaining people also returned to the city to gather under Tuor. Excited by the arrival of the dragon, the enemy launched a new onslaught on Ecthelion and Tuor. Tuor killed three Orcs leaders in the battle, while Ecthelion killed two Goblin leaders and three Balrog (it was really amazing @ _ @).
however, Ecthelion's left arm was also hit by Balrog's fire whip, and his shield fell to the ground. At this time, the fire dragon was just around the corner. Tuor refused to give up Ecthelion and stumbled back to the square behind his back, just being rescued by Galdor who had just arrived. Galdor arrived here all the way from the west, fighting and retreating, but there are not many people left around the Tree family. Now people from five families, namely Wing, Fountain, Tree, Swallow and Arch, have gathered around Tuor, but many of them have been injured. At Tuor's suggestion, everyone decided to retreat to the square, where they met Glorfindel who had just returned from the east.
The Golden Flower family of p>Glorfindel was originally responsible for the defense around the Great Market in the east of the city. They fought fiercely in the encirclement of Balrog Orcs for several hours, and they had to try to break through the encirclement and retreat to the city center until the arrival of the fire dragon. Turgon once ordered Salgant to take the Harp family to reinforce, but Salgant stayed put, leaving only his men to stay in the south of the city, which is still basically safe. After learning about the war situation in other parts of the city, his subordinates could not bear the cowardice of their leaders, and rushed to the front of the palace despite Salgant's obstruction, just in the most critical moment to save Glorfindel. However, most of these Harp soldiers were trapped in the fire and burned to death because of the lack of effective command.
Egalmoth, the leader of Arch, came to the Palace Square last. Before that, he had been leading the remnant Arch and Swallow people around him to run around the city, gathering the scattered warriors of various families and trying his best to save all the prisoners, women and children that could be found. After coming to the square, women and children who could not fight were temporarily sent to the king's halls. Now, except for the Hammer family who has died in battle, most of the remaining forces of other families have been concentrated in the King's Square area, but only Turgon's own soldiers have not suffered any casualties. Their task is to defend the king until the last moment.
The enemy has also regrouped its troops, and seven fire dragons, together with the Orcs army, came to the square from the east, west and north under the command of Balrog. Tuor got separated from Egalmoth and others in the melee, and was pushed to the King's Fountain by Gothmog, the leader of Balrog. Just when Tuor was in no way back, Ecthelion, who had fallen beside the fountain, rushed up to stand in front of Tuor. His left arm could not be used for a long time, and now the sword in his right hand was knocked off, but he unexpectedly jumped up high. With the power of falling, he used the spear-like protrusion on his helmet as a weapon to ruthlessly pierce Gothmog's chest, and at the same time, he twisted Gothmog's thigh with his legs to make him unstable. Gothmog fell into the bottomless pool in front of him with Ecthelion in a howl. In this way, Ecthelion, known as the most beautiful Norodo elf in Gondolin, sank into the cold water of the King's Fountain with Gothmog. (Plus Gothmog, Ecthelion killed four Balrog, among which Gothmog also killed Feanor and Fingon, to pay tribute to Ecthelion ~ ~)
Tuor, who was rescued by Ecthelion, had no time to mourn for his friends at this moment, and he barely rushed out of the encirclement to find a companion. Gothmog's death also shook the confidence of the enemy. At this time, Turgon took the guards of the Wang family out of the palace, and this new force quickly swept over most of the square, during which two Balrog were killed. Turgon's men then chased a fire dragon all the way into the King's Fountain, which just ruined Gothmog, and killed it. However, the flame and heat emitted by the fire dragon also dried up this beautiful fountain in an instant, and a lot of hot steam rose to the sky and filled the whole square, blocking everyone's sight, and the battle was temporarily suspended.
At this time, Turgon knew that the battle could not be won. He hoped that Tuor would lead everyone to break through, but he refused to leave Gondolin. Turgon climbed the white tower next to the palace, determined to be destroyed with Gondolin. The king's guards also stayed around the White Pagoda, vowing to live and die with the king. Tuor led all the remaining soldiers, as well as the women and children in the palace hall, to the south. In his home in the south of the city, there is a tunnel that passes through the bottom of the mountain and leads directly to the plain outside the city. This was prepared by Tuor's wife Idril in advance, because Idril had already foreseen the fall of Gondolin.
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The team with women, children and the wounded can't walk fast, Tuor keeps those who are still fighting in the periphery to deal with the enemy's attack, and Glorfindel bravely leads his men to walk in the back. (It seems that since this time, Glorfindel has been in charge of the patrol, and the words in the book should be voluntary.) However, there are not many enemies on the road. They have been walking all the way to the Place of the Gods, which is the highest place in the city. Tuor accidentally found his wife Idril standing there, her hair was not braided, but hung over her shoulders as before marriage, and her eyes looked behind Tuor absently. Tuor turned around, and together with his wife, witnessed the final struggle of the king's guards (it was their fighting that won Tuor the time to retreat), witnessed the double trees of gold and silver turned to ashes, and witnessed the collapse of the White Pagoda, and Turgon, the king of Gondolin, was buried in the ruins. Morgoth can officially declare his victory.
Tuor continued to lead the people to retreat to the south and enter the tunnel of their home. They walked in the tunnel for more than two hours and finally came to the plain outside the city. Looking back, looking at the beautiful Baicheng on the mountain is now a sea of fire in the night. Here, people are divided on how to cross the surrounding mountains: Tuor advocates taking the Cleft of Eagles (Cristhorn), but many people think it is too long and dangerous, and insist on taking the secret passage that Gondolin used to communicate with the outside world. So the fugitives finally split into two roads, Tuor, which is in the area of Legolas Green Leaf ().