** Fall of Gondolin Section 3 Structure**

[Maédhros]

From Unfinished Tales: Of Tuor and his coming to Gondolin, Note 31

Other disjointed notes indicate that there was to be a description of Gondolin as seen by Tuor from far off; that Ulmo's cloak would vanish when Tuor spoke the message of Turgon; that would be explained why there was no Queen of Gondolin; and that it was to be emphasized, either when Tuor first set eyes upon Idril or at some earlier point, that he had known or even seen few women in his life. Most of the women and all the children of Annael's company in Mithrim were sent away south; and as a thrall Tuor had seen only the proud and barbaric women of the Easterlings, who treated him as a beast, or the unhappy slaves forced to labour from childhood, for whom he had only pity.

Of all of the additional things that JRRT meant for the Fog, the only one that we have not taken up is the mentioning of why there was no queen in Gondolin. I propose the following to include it:

§ 20 Now Tuor learnt < TO that there was no Queen of Gondolin because the wife of Turgon, Elenwë, was lost long before in the crossing of the Helcaraxë by the host of Fingolfin;> [this and] many [other] things in those realms [were] taught by Voronwë whom he loved, and who loved him exceeding greatly in return; or else was he instructed by the skilled men of the city and the wise men of the king.

Looking foward for your responses.