The Warden of the Great Gate was the title given to the keeper of the Gate of Steel, who held ultimate authority over all the Seven Gates of the Orfalch Echor. At the time of Tuor's arrival at Gondolin, this was Ecthelion.[1]
References
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "Of Tuor and his Coming to Gondolin", pp. 46, 50