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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: 5, Interesting) by stormwyrm on Saturday January 18 2020, @02:45AM
I first ran across a copy of the Hobbit when I was eight years old, in 1984. My father had 1973 editions of The Hobbit, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King (note the absence of one book), and so it was that The Hobbit was the first novel that I ever read and finished on my own. When I asked him where's The Fellowship of the Ring, he just shrugged and told me that he didn't know, as he hadn't read them himself, and just got them from a friend abroad. The books were otherwise absent from the bookshops in the third world right-wing dictatorship where I lived, and it wasn't until 1993 (long after the dictator had been overthrown) when I finally found a copy of Fellowship. Nevertheless, it probably isn't an exaggeration to say that Tolkien was the spark that ignited my lifelong love for literature and fantasy in particular.
Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate.