David Greenman, in "Mythlore", compares "The Fall of Gondolin", Tolkien's first long Middle-earth work, to Virgil's "Aeneid". He finds it fitting that Tuor, "Tolkien's early quest-hero", escapes from the wreck of an old kingdom and creates new ones, just as Aeneas does, while his late quest-heroes in "The Lord of the Rings", the hobbits of the Shire, are made to return to their home, ravaged while they were away, and are obliged to scour it clean, just as Odysseus does in Homer's "Odyssey".