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Christopher Tolkien Dies, Aged 95

posted by janrinok on Friday January 17 2020, @08:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the Namárië dept.

kazzie writes:

News from the BBC

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?

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @12:03AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @12:03AM (#944806)

    Me, apparently. For anyone else who needs a refresher:

    Ezekiel 23:20
    She lusted after her lovers there, whose genitals were like those of donkeys, and whose emission was like that of stallions

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @01:33AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @01:33AM (#944828)

    The Message version, which gives 23:18-21:

    I turned my back on her just as I had on her sister. But that didn’t slow her down. She went at her whoring harder than ever. She remembered when she was young, just starting out as a whore in Egypt. That whetted her appetite for more virile, vulgar, and violent lovers—stallions obsessive in their lust. She longed for the sexual prowess of her youth back in Egypt, where her firm young breasts were caressed and fondled.

    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

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 18 2020, @03:42PM (#944987) Journal

      And, some places still have problems with hanging chad . . .

      There's nothing new under the sun.