Dates

Built I 472 or shortly thereafter; fell to Melkor I 510

Location

Guarding the entrance from the Orfalch Echor onto the plain of Tumladen

Origins

Made by Maeglin

Race

Divisions

Noldor and Sindar

Culture

Settlements

Other names

The Great Gate of Gondolin, The Last Gate, The Seventh Gate

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Gate of Steel

The last defence of Gondolin

Years of the TreesFirst AgeISecond AgeIIThird AgeIIIFourth AgeIV

Map of the Gate of Steel

The location of the Gate of Steel within the Orfalch Echor (not to scale)

The location of the Gate of Steel within the Orfalch Echor (not to scale)

The Seven Gates of Gondolin

The last of the Seven Gates of Gondolin, built some centuries after the other six as an ultimate defence after the disaster of the Nirnaeth Arnoediad. Though all but impassable to an enemy, the Gate ultimately failed to prevent the Fall of Gondolin.

See also...

King-helm of Turgon, Seven Gates of Gondolin, Seventh Gate, Warden of the Great Gate

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