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The Children of Húrin is an epic fantasy novel which forms the completion of a tale by J. R. R. Tolkien. He wrote the original version of the story in the late 1910s, revising it several times later, but did not complete it before his death in 1973.
Christopher John Reuel Tolkien (21 November 1924 – 16 January 2020) was an English and naturalised French academic editor and writer. The son of the author and academic J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher 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.
She married Christopher Tolkien on 18 September 1967. She has two children with Christopher. Their son Adam Reuel Tolkien was born in 1969, and their daughter Rachel Clare Reuel Tolkien was born in 1971. After the death of J. R. R. Tolkien, his letters written to his children were edited by Baillie for publication.
The Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger, discussing the splintering of the original created light of Middle-earth, likens Melkor/Morgoth's response to the Silmarils to that of Fëanor, who had created those jewels. She states that the central temptation is the desire to possess, and that possessiveness itself is the "great transgression" in Tolkien ...
Written by Tolkien for use by translators of The Lord of the Rings; an edited version was Lobdell 1975 (above). 2007 The Children of Húrin edited by Christopher Tolkien; 2007 The History of The Hobbit by John D. Rateliff – contains substantial text fragments; 2017 Beren and Lúthien edited by Christopher Tolkien [1]
Christopher Tolkien, the son of Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien who helped to expand understanding of the mythical world of Middle-earth, has died. He passed in Provence, France at age 95 ...
Melian is a fictional character in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium.She appears in The Silmarillion, The Children of Húrin, Beren and Lúthien, and in several stories within The History of Middle-earth series.
Even Tolkien himself was often loosey-goosey with their story; as the author’s son Christopher Tolkien notes in Unfinished Tales, "There is no part of the history of Middle-earth more full of ...