To respond to grabcocque's suggestion that “Christopher Tolkien calls himself an ‘editor’ but I’m not sure he understands what the word means.” Christopher Tol

To respond to grabcocque's suggestion that “Christopher Tolkien calls himself an ‘editor’ but I’m not sure he understands what the word means.” Christopher Tolkien knows what the word means. He studied English at Oxford and later became a lecturer and tutor in English Language there. He published Saga of King Heidrek the Wise, which he translated from Icelandic. He was given the Bodley Medal by the Bodleian Library at Oxford University. According to Wikipedia, the medal is awarded to individuals who have made “outstanding contributions...to the worlds of communications and literature” and who have helped the library achieve “the vision of its founder, Sir Thomas Bodley, to be a library not just to Oxford University but also to the world”. That is to say, he’s extremely literate. If he didn’t understand what the word “editor” means he would have looked it up in a dictionary. I’m almost positive he has one.