this was directly derived from the 'sketch ' , and while much enlarging the earlier text and writing in a more finished manner , my father nonetheless still saw the quenta very much as a summarising work , an epitome of far richer narrative conceptions : as is in any case clearly shown by the sub-title that he gave to it , in which he declared that it was 'a brief history [ of the noldor ] drawn from the book of lost tales ' .