Christopher Tolkien

✶November 21, 1924

†January 16, 2020

No one has lit a candle yet. Be the first.

About their life

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 second half of his life in France, becoming a French citizen.

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

☆ Follow

Biography from the article Christopher Tolkien on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.