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Christopher Tolkien, who edited and published the posthumous works of his father, Lord of the Rings writer JRR Tolkien, has died aged 95.
The news was confirmed by the Tolkien Society, which described him as "Middle-earth's first scholar".
After his father's death in 1973, Mr Tolkien published the acclaimed work The Silmarillion.
Scholar Dr Dimitra Fimi said the study of JRR Tolkien "would never be what it is today" without his input.
My first introduction to J.R.R. Tolkien's work was The Father Christmas Letters, which were written for Christopher and his siblings. In more recent years, I've dipped into Christopher's work on Middle Earth, both his History of Middle Earth, and the various pieces of his father's work that he edited and expanded upon.
What memories do Soylentils have of the Tolkiens' work?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by edIII on Friday January 17 2020, @10:21PM (10 children)
Tolkien is huge in my family. Without any exaggeration whatsoever, I would put my older relatives up against Colbert in a trivia contest any day. One of them reads it yearly. By it, I mean the works. More than one has made the pilgrimage to our Graceland, aka New Zealand :)
My grandfather stood in line to get copies for his children. These books have been handed down in the family, and my first experience was being handed The Hobbit when I was young boy. I read it without stopping, and I think it was this book that started my love affair with books. Sci-fi and fantasy in particular.
A couple years later I was handed LoTR, and the sheer depth of that universe is still amazing to me. The mental journey while reading those books is one my fondest memories of childhood period. I'm holding a collection in a slipcase that I got in 1979 in my hands right now.
There are two great poems I remember, The One Ring, and Ezekial 25:17 :)
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @11:30PM (4 children)
And who can forget Ezekiel 23:20.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @12:03AM (2 children)
Me, apparently. For anyone else who needs a refresher:
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @01:33AM (1 child)
The Message version, which gives 23:18-21:
The Bible is like an incel manual, by incels, for incels, forever jealous of the well-hung Chad.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 18 2020, @03:42PM
And, some places still have problems with hanging chad . . .
There's nothing new under the sun.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Saturday January 18 2020, @12:05AM
Damn. I didn't know parts of the Bible read like a trashy romance novel picked up at the grocery store :)
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Saturday January 18 2020, @12:23AM (4 children)
The One Ring is the ultimate in single points of failure.
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Saturday January 18 2020, @04:13AM
This bash.org quote [bash.org] comes to mind...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday January 18 2020, @04:28AM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @04:36AM
Fortunately, nobody will get to the necessary exhaust port...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by mcgrew on Saturday January 18 2020, @03:01PM
A friend of mine sank into alcohol addiction, losing his driver's license, custody of his son, his job, and ultimately everything but his life. At that point I realized what the One Ring was: addiction. Junkies and alcoholics are Smeagol.
Danny finally went to AA and has his life back, including everything he lost, much like Bilbo.
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