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| Date | Event | Details |
|---|---|---|
21 November 1924 | Birth | The youngest son of J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher drew the original maps for The Lord of the Rings as a young man and was named his father's literary executor in 1967. He spent the following 45 years editing and publishing 24 volumes of his father's unpublished work. |
1981 | Award Nominated | Balrog Award Professional achievement, for publishing his father's work |
1981 | Award Won | Mythopoeic Award Scholarship/Inkling category |
16 January 2020 | Death | Christopher Tolkien died in France at the age of 95, having devoted half a century to preserving and publishing his father's legendarium. His editing of The Silmarillion, The History of Middle-earth, and Unfinished Tales ensured that Middle-earth remains one of the most fully realised imaginary worlds in literature. |
The youngest son of J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher drew the original maps for The Lord of the Rings as a young man and was named his father's literary executor in 1967. He spent the following 45 years editing and publishing 24 volumes of his father's unpublished work.
Balrog Award
Professional achievement, for publishing his father's work
Mythopoeic Award
Scholarship/Inkling category
Christopher Tolkien died in France at the age of 95, having devoted half a century to preserving and publishing his father's legendarium. His editing of The Silmarillion, The History of Middle-earth, and Unfinished Tales ensured that Middle-earth remains one of the most fully realised imaginary worlds in literature.

1980
Further tales that expand The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings. This collection ranges from the time of The Silmarillion to the end of the War of the Ring in The Lord of the Rings. Its many treasures include Gandalf's lively account of how he came to send the Dwarves to the celebrated party at Bag-End, the emergence of the sea-god Ulmo before Tuor, the only story of Númenor before its fall, and all that is known of the Five Wizards. The collection has been edited by Christopher Tolkien, who provides a commentary placing each of the Tales in the context of his father's work.

2007
The ‘Great Tale’ of The Children of Húrin, set during the legendary time before The Lord of the Rings. Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwells in the vast fortress of Angband in the North; and within the shadow of the fear of Angband, and the war waged by Morgoth against the Elves, the fates of Turin and his sister Nienor will be tragically entwined. Their brief and passionate lives are dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bears them as the children of Húrin, the man who dared to defy him to his face. Against them Morgoth sends his most formidable servant, Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire. Sardonic and mocking, Glaurung manipulates the fates of Turin and Nienor by lies of diabolic cunning and guile, in an attempt to fulfil the curse of Morgoth.