“s stories as the inspiration of some of his plotlines and says that the influence of JRR”
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Christopher Tolkien
Christopher John Reuel Tolkien 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…
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culture · British book editor (1924–2020) · writer · editor · university teacher · novelist · also Christopher Tolkien, Christopher Reuel Tolkien, Christopher John Reuel Tolkien, Tolkien
Born 21 November 1924 · Died 16 January 2020 · Q82032
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2026· 8 entries
“All that changed when the films came along. They were a massive global hit, and everywhere you went the name of Tolkien meant something.”
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“s grandson, his name opened doors with agents and publishers.”
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“The thing I used to do, all the time, was ask him about the plots that were off somewhere out of sight in the books. He was very patient and would always indulge me by explaining what else the wizards and dragons he”
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“s novels onto the big screen. Peter Jackson directed the first film”
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“He had a hatred of all things Hollywood and did not believe in the idea of imitation being the best form of flattery.”
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“The suggestions that have been made that I”
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“enter[ing] into the imagined past”
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2020· 5 entries
Dhaka Tribune: Christopher Tolkien: The champion of his father’s literary legacy
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NBC 6 South Florida: Christopher Tolkien, Son of ‘Lord of the Rings' Author, Dies at 95
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Died 2020-01-16.
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Tolkien died on 16 January 2020, at the age of 95, in Draguignan, Var, France.
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“Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed into the absurdity of our time. The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing. There is only one solution for me: to turn my head away.”
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2017· 1 entry
And The Fall of Gondolin, published in 2018, constituted what J
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2016· 2 entries
Won Bodley Medal (2016).
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Won a Bodley Medal, an award that recognises outstanding contributions to literature, culture, science, and communication
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2012· 2 entries
Christopher Tolkien admitted "I had had to invent some passages", that he had had a dream that his father was anxiously searching for something, and that he had "realized in horror that it was The Silmarillion
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“They gutted the book, making an action film for 15-to-25-year-olds.”
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2008· 1 entry
Commenced legal proceedings against New Line Cinema, which he claimed owed his family £80 million in unpaid royalties
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2001· 1 entry
Christopher Tolkien expressed doubts over The Lord of the Rings film trilogy directed by Peter Jackson, questioning the viability of a film interpretation that retained the essence of the work, but stressed that this was
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1981· 1 entry
The scholar of literature Randel Helms, taking that statement as definitive of Christopher Tolkien's editorial, indeed authorial, intentions, stated in terms that "The Silmarillion in the shape that we have it [a single-
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1980· 1 entry
And then to the far larger project of The History of Middle-earth in 12 volumes between 1983 and 1996
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1975· 1 entry
Moved to the south of France, where she edited her father-in-law's The Father Christmas Letters for posthumous publication, and he acquired French citizenship
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1973· 1 entry
Took a large quantity of legendarium manuscripts to his Oxfordshire home, where he converted a barn into a workspace
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1967· 1 entry
His father named him as his literary executor, and more specifically as his co-author of The Silmarillion
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1953· 1 entry
Under the philologist Gabriel Turville-Petre
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1951· 1 entry
Was to the sculptor Faith Lucy Tilly Faulconbridge (1928–2017)
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1924· 1 entry
Born 1924-11-21.
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1916· 1 entry
“My grandfather had been working on his vast project across about 30 years – he started it during his time in the trenches in 1916. And although it”
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