Well I'm pretty sure that's exactly how it goes in the book, so I don't know what you're complaining about!
("So long as it ends with Silmaril". Snort. ^_^)
Meanwhile, while you've been being productive, I've just been mucking about. I remain firmly convinced that Les Mis should be retold as the Fall of Gondolin, and I've found Aredhel's signature song:
I Dreamed A Dream
There was a time when he was kind
When his voice was so soft
And his words inviting...
There was a time when love was blind
And the woods were my world
And the world was exciting...
There was a time...
... when it all went wrong.
I dreamed a dream in times gone by
Of life beyond these walls uncharted
I stood before my brother's throne
I took his leave and I departed
I wandered far through light and dark
I found him deep in forest shaded
I took his hand, he took my heart
New songs we sang, new wine we tasted!
But the werewolves come at night
With their howling soft as thunder
And they tear your hopes apart
And they turn your dreams to shame...!
A hundred summers by his side
A son I bore, and named in secret
All through his childhood must I bide...
But we were gone when autumn came.
But still he followed after me
And I dared dream that love did drive him
But he sought only for Maeglin
What bitter shaft to slay my longing!
I had a dream the world would be
Wider by far than walls of Gondolin
I dreamed his love would set me free!
My love has killed the dream I dreamed...
(This completely breaks the idea of doing it in order, since Fantine has three more songs after this. But I'm not sure there was ever any chance that "Lovely Ladies" would fit into Gondolin so perhaps it's all to the best.)
hS