Gondolin is a fictional city that had possible parallels to a city whose present-day location is known as what?
Gondolin Gondolin is a fictional city in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, inhabited by Elves. Found and founded with divine inspiration, it is hidden by mountains and endures for centuries before being betrayed and destroyed. It was the mightiest of the elven homes in the Hither Lands The city was famed for its walls, and had possible parallels to Troy
Eriador Eriador is a large region in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth. The Shire, a land which became famous in the Third Age and again in modern times, was located in the central west of this region. The region was also called the Lone-lands, a translation of "Eriador".