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**lindil** · 02-13-2003, 01:19 AM

FG-TG-02
{and she was a} [Idril Celebrindal, the] daughter of the king.
Now Tuor learnt many things in ...

... There he heard concerning that city of Gondolin and how unstaying labour through ages of years had not sufficed to its building and adornment whereat folk travailed yet;

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re: the bolded selection, I am not sure if it has been addressed anywhere else, but I was cross-referencing the proposed changes of here and the private forum version and saw that we seemed to have missed this bit about the 'ages of years', and the 'whereat folk traivaled yet'.

In the first case, the whole chronology had been changed so that Gondolin was built in 38 years, I think, and Tuor arrived after 400 or so years.

And then secondarily, the work still continuing contradicts The Greyt Annals entry ~110/111 for the year 116 wherein it says, Gondolin was full-wrought.

02-13-2003, 01:19 AM	#12
lindil Seeker of the Straight Path Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: a hidden fastness in Big Valley nor cal Posts: 1,680	FG-TG-02 {and she was a} [Idril Celebrindal, the] daughter of the king. Now Tuor learnt many things in ... ... There he heard concerning that city of Gondolin and how unstaying labour through ages of years had not sufficed to its building and adornment whereat folk travailed yet; -=-=-=--=- re: the bolded selection, I am not sure if it has been addressed anywhere else, but I was cross-referencing the proposed changes of here and the private forum version and saw that we seemed to have missed this bit about the 'ages of years', and the 'whereat folk traivaled yet'. In the first case, the whole chronology had been changed so that Gondolin was built in 38 years, I think, and Tuor arrived after 400 or so years. And then secondarily, the work still continuing contradicts The Greyt Annals entry ~110/111 for the year 116 wherein it says, Gondolin was full-wrought. __________________ The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night exchanging lore & wisdom such as they still possessed that they should not fall back into the mean estate of those who never knew or indeed rebelled against the Light.