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

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: 2) by stormwyrm on Saturday January 18 2020, @02:20AM

    by stormwyrm (717) on Saturday January 18 2020, @02:20AM (#944844) Journal
    I've read the Silmarillion several times over the years since I first found a copy. It's not a novel the way The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are: it reads a lot more like Bulfinch's Mythology than a normal novel, and that I think was intentional. It is basically a compendium of the myths and legends of the peoples of Middle-earth, just as Bulfinch's Mythology is a compendium of Greek myths and legends. The Children of Húrin, published in 2007, is an expansion of Chapter 21 of the Silmarillion ("Of Túrin Turambar") into a full novel. I heard once that the plan was to give some other stories in the Silmarillion a similar treatment, but that didn't pan out.
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