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Christopher Tolkien

literary scholar, writer, and editor (1924–2020)

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Christopher Reuel Tolkien (born 21 November 1924) is the third and youngest son of the author J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973), and is best known as the editor of much of his father's posthumously published work. He drew the original maps for his father's The Lord of the Rings, which he signed C. J. R. T. The J. stands for John, a baptismal name that he does not ordinarily use. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Christopher+Tolkien">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Born: Christopher John Reuel Tolkien , ( 1924-11-21 ) 21 November 1924, Leeds , England
Died: 16 January 2020 (2020-01-16) (aged 95), Draguignan , France
Occupation: Editor illustrator academic
Alma mater: Trinity College, Oxford ( BA , BLitt )
Genre: Fantasy
Notable awards: Bodley Medal (2016)
Spouse: Faith Faulconbridge ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2 April 1951</span>"}]]}'>1951 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1967 ) Baillie Klass ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1967 )
Children: 3, including Simon and Adam
Parents: J. R. R. Tolkien (father) Edith Tolkien (mother)
Relatives: Hilary Tolkien (uncle) John Tolkien (brother) Priscilla Tolkien (sister)

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Christopher John Reuel Tolkien (21 November 1924 – 16 January 2020) was an English academic editor and writer. The son of the author and academic J. R. R. Tolkien, he edited 24 volumes based on his father's posthumously published work, including The Silmarillion and the 12-volume series The History of Middle-Earth, a task that took 45 years. He drew the original maps for his father's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings. He spent the second half of his life in France, becoming a French citizen.

Outside his father's unfinished works, he edited three tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (with Nevill Coghill) and his father's translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Tolkien scholars have remarked that he used his skill as a philologist, demonstrated in his editing of those medieval works, to research, collate, edit, and comment on his father's Middle-earth writings exactly as if they were real-world legends. The effect is both to frame his father's works and to insert himself as a narrator. They have further noted that his additions to The Silmarillion, such as to fill in gaps, and his composition of the text in his own literary style, place him as an author as well as an editor of that book.