now the mountains or rather their lowest hills were on that side seven leagues save a mile from gondolin , and cristhorn the cleft of eagles two leagues of upward going from the beginning of the mountains , for it was at a great height ; wherefore they had yet two leagues and part of a third to traverse amid the spurs and foothills , and they were very weary.~ by now the sun hung well above a saddle in the eastern hills , and she was very red and great ; and the mists nigh them were lifted , but the ruins of gondolin were utterly hidden as in a cloud .