The Lay of the Fall of Gondolin

The Lay of the Fall of Gondolin is unpublished poem about the Fall of Gondolin. It was unfinished consisting of an abandoned beginning of the poem. It consisted of only 130 lines. Christopher Tolkien only discusses the poem briefly in The Lays of Beleriand but did not publish all of it, and it wasn 't included in The Fall of Gondolin (2018).

Background
Christopher Tolkien chose to leave it unpublished, since he believed it didn't add anything new to the Tale (The Fall of Gondolin as given Lost Tales II), because his father likely found its metrical form unsuitable to the purpose.

He did include a few short passages:


 * (Lay) Rejoice that ye have found it and rest from endless war,
 * For the seven-named city 'tis that stands upon the hill,
 * Where all who strive with Morgoth find hope and valour still.'
 * 'What be those names,' said Tuor, 'for I come from long afar?'
 * "Tis said and 'tis sung,' one answered, '"My name is Gondobar
 * And Gondothlimbar also, the City hewn of Stone,
 * The fortress of the Gnome-folk who dwell in Halls of Stone, &c.


 * Thither Tuor son of Fengel came out of the dim land
 * that the Gnomes have called Dor-Lomin, with Bronweg at his hand,
 * who fled from the Iron Mountains and had broken Melko's chain
 * and cast his yoke of evil, of torment and bitter pain;
 * who alone most faithful-hearted led Tuor by long ways
 * through empty hills and valleys by dark nights and perilous days,
 * till his blue lamp magic-kindled, where flow the shadowy rills
 * beneath enchanted alders, found that Gate beneath the hills,
 * the door in dark Dungorthin that only-the Gnome-folk knew.


 * how the Gods in council gathered on the outmost rocky bars
 * of the Lonely Island westward, and devised a land of ease
 * beyond the great sea-shadows and the shadowy seas;
 * how they made the deep gulf of Faerie with long and lonely shore . ..

Other than those few short bits above, and a few other short verses from the text, he only discusses a few name changes between the text and comparisons to other poems his father had worked on. Such as a scrap that appeared in the Seven Names of Gondolin.


 * But whereas in the Lay of the Fall of Gondolin Fingolfin has emerged and stepped into Finwe's place as the father of Turgon and Isfin, he is not here the sone of Finwe but one of Gelmir.