[Mithadan]

Bethberry, the only way to read The Fall of Gondolin as written by JRRT is to review the various incarnations of the story in the HoME series. The most complete, albeit archaic, telling of the story is in BoLT 2. Versions appear in HoME 4,5 and 11 (I don't have the books in front of me and can't recall how the tale was treated in HoME 11; if JRRT didn't change much from earlier versions, CT may have glossed over the story referring readers to earlier incarnations).

I don't completely agree with MM regarding CT being the "author" of the Fall of Gondolin. To say this would be to say that CT wrote the entire Silmarillion. Versions of Fall of Gondolin were available for CT to work from. This is unlike the Fall of Doriath which CT did have to write because there was no one consistent and complete telling of the story.

The Canon project, of which I am nominally a member, seeks to retell portions of the Silmarillion using JRRT's own words to the greatest extent possible and, in doing so, to correct errors and omissions by CT. The Canon group selected Fall of Gondolin as its inaugural work, and is using the BoLT and UT versions as the base texts, revising it per later versions. The selection of this text as the first work has been problematic precisely because the base text is the archaic BoLT rather than later versions.