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I couldn't agree more with that statement. For someone who had read the hobbit, LOTR, and the Silmarillion and wanted more from that universe. Christopher Tolki
by subsubzero 5y ago
I couldn't agree more with that statement. For someone who had read the hobbit, LOTR, and the Silmarillion and wanted more from that universe. Christopher Tolkien provided a wealth of new books from his fathers unpublished papers released since the 90's and beyond: things like unfinished tales, the children of Hurin, the fall of Gondolin, etc. I couldn't be happier having these extra novels to read and am thankful for the tireless work of his son to bring these to light who worked into his 90's to get them published.
- ar_lan 5y agoThe ideas may have been his father's, but Christopher Tolkien is as responsible for execution as his father was in my eyes, and I solidly consider him to be just as brilliant of a mind, especially for the fantasy-world.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agonit: Unfinished Tales was first published in 1980.
- cpfohl 5y agoI think you're misreading "into his 90s" as "the 90s"? ;)
- xu_ituairo 5y agoOP says "released since the 90's and beyond," earlier in the comment.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoNo - JRR Tolkien was already dead by 1980.
- subsubzero 5y agothanks! you are correct, I thought Unfinished Tales was released in the 90's when I first read it. it was released in 1980.
- fmajid 5y agoI read it in 1982 when I briefly lived in London as a child.