[Quiet Man Cometh]

Okay, so got my copy of Children of Hurin back. In the preface it states that The Book of Lost Tales was the first project that Tolkein began work on back in WWI, and in that book where three stories that were much longer, those being "The Tale of Tinuviel", "Turambar and teh Foaloke" (lots of accents and tiggles missing here) and "The Fall of Gondolin." It was described in a letter in 1951, his original plans for "a body of more or less collected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogenic, to the level of romantic fairy-story" (Christopher Tolkein quoting here). He wanted to expand on a few of the tales.

"The Tale of Tinuviel" is the story of Beren and Luthien, which is the major theme behind The Silarillion, apparently, and "Turambar and the Foaloke" surfaced as The Children of Hurin, which, according to Tolkein senior, is important to the "elder days" history of elves and men.

Not sure what Christopher plans to do for "The Fall of Gondolin" if anything.

Anyway, such is what I garnered from the book's preface. I'd kind of like to see the fall of Gondolin in a novel form, as much because it might be a while before I get to the Silmarillion.