Gondolin Map Location

[4th Age Scribe]

My Sil maps leave much to be desired, as this most critical place is located in the crease of the pages, making it very difficult to make out.

What I really want to know, is where Gondolin is (was) located when looking at a map in the 3rd age.

 

[4th Age Scribe]

Correct me if I'm wrong. Did all of this fall into the sea?

 

[Mablung]

No I believe it is just southeast of Minas Tirith surronded by mountains but I can't find a map of it.

 

[Ithrynluin]

Gondolin cannot be found on a Third Age map at all (or a Second Age map for that matter).
Gondolin was located in that part of Middle Earth commonly referred to as Beleriand, which sank under the waves at the end of the 1st Age.

Maybe this can help you -

 

[Rúmil]

This may be helpful

 

[Eledhwen]

The best point of reference between the first and third age maps is to find the Ered Luin (Blue Mountains). On the Third Age map they run down the west, quite close to the sea. In the North is a small island called Himling, which is also a useful reference point.

When you then look at the map of Beleriand in the Silmarillion, you will find the Ered Luin runs east of Ossiriand and Thargelion. Near the source of the River Gelion, to the North where it is the Little Gelion, is a mountain called Himring, which I believe is the same as the island Himling of the 3rd Age map. Looking at all that lay to the west of Ered Luin gives some idea of the scale of the devastation of Beleriand.

 

[4th Age Scribe]

Ah thank you. I understood all of this perfectly last I read the Sil. I guess it's time to read her again.

 

[Walter]

It should still be locatable, since it must be somewhere about Tol Fuin (~the highest parts of Dorthonion) at the maps of the Second or Third Age (e.g. Atlas of Middle-earth or HoME VII p302).

 

[Finduilas]

Excuse me,but would you tell me where did you take this maps from,I mean any e-mail sires,because I haven't seen them in those I have been in.

 

[Walter]

Sorry to disappoint you, but mine is a scan of a fraction of a map from the Atlas of Middle-Earth.

Originally posted by Finduilas
Excuse me,but would you tell me where did you take this maps from,I mean any e-mail sires,because I haven't seen them in those I have been in.