 On 18 June, he began the developed draft while still working on the preliminary draft; but later that same month he dropped the work (at the point where Siegfried rests himself beneath the linden tree) to concentrate on "Tristan und Isolde".The preliminary draft reached this point on the 26th, and the developed draft on the 27th.It seems that Wagner was tiring of the "Ring" and he considered putting it aside for a while