before the telling of the fall of condolin lindo told littleheart that 'it is the desire of all that you tell us the tales of tuor and of earendel as soon as may be ' ( p. 144 ) , and littleheart replied : 'it is a mighty tale , and seven times shall folk fare to the tale-fire ere it be rightly told ; and so twined is it with those stories of the nauglafring and of the elf-march that i would fain have aid in that telling of ailios here ... ' thus littleheart 's surrender of the chair of the tale-teller to ailios at the beginning of the present text , so that ailios should tell of the nauglafring , fits the general context well ; but we should not expect the new tale to be introduced with the words 'but after a while silence fell ' , since the fall of gondolin ends 'and no one in all the room of logs spake or moved for a great while . '