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The Fall of Gondolin is a 2018 book of fantasy fiction by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by his son Christopher. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The story is one of what Tolkien called the three " Great Tales " from the First Age of Middle-earth ; the other two are Beren and Lúthien and The Children of Húrin .
Gaston III, known as Gaston Phoebus or Fébus (30 April 1331 – 1 August 1391), was the eleventh Count of Foix (as Gaston III) and twenty-fourth Viscount of Béarn (as Gaston X) from 1343 until his death. Due to his ancestral inheritance, Gaston III was overlord of about ten territories located between the Pays de Gascogne and Languedoc.
In his book Tolkien and the Great War, John Garth states that Tolkien wrote his 1917 story "The Fall of Gondolin" in hospital after returning to England from the Battle of the Somme. In his view, the tale's first half seems to reflect Tolkien's "slow acceptance of duty" at the start of the war, while the second half "surely reverberates to his ...
On December 22, 1985, whilst attempting to rescue his stranded girlfriend from a 20-foot (6.1-meter) in height fall that occured from mountaing climbing, Yamashiro slipped and fell head first 300 feet (90 meters) and later another 100 feet (30 meters). The second fall took place during a rescue effort and was captured on film.
Gaston de Foix, duc de Nemours (10 December 1489 – 11 April 1512), nicknamed The Thunderbolt of Italy, [1] was a famed French military commander of the Renaissance. Nephew of King Louis XII of France and general of his armies in Italy from 1511 to 1512, he is noted for his military feats in a career which lasted no longer than a few months.
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Gaston is one of several elements unique to Disney's animated adaptation of the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale, written by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. [1] Under Richard and Jill Purdum's direction, Gaston originally resembled a "foppish aristocrat" as opposed to the strong, arrogant hunter he would ultimately be revised into; [2] [3] The Huffington Post described early drafts of Gaston ...
A former window washer has admitted to having a different perspective on life since surviving a 47-floor fall while working nearly 10 years ago. Alcides Moreno, now 46, told the BBC recently, "I ...