Idril's secret way
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Idril's secret way was a tunnel under Gondolin that Idril, Tuor, and their allies built in secret, and it was through this that the survivors of the Fall of Gondolin escaped.[1][2]
References
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lays of Beleriand, "II. Poems Early Abandoned: Fragment of an alliterative Lay of Eärendel", p. 142, verse 11