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bibliography
The Pardoner's Tale (1958)
The Nun's Priest's Tale (1959)
The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise (1960)
The Man of Law's Tale (1969)
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien: A Brief Account of the Book and Its Making (1977)
Of Beren and Luthien (1977)
Of the Darkening of Valinor and Of the Flight of the Noldor (1978)
Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien (1979)
Unfinished Tales (1980)
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1981)
The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays (1983)
The Book of Lost Tales (1983-4)
The Lays of Beleriand (1985)
The Shaping of Middle-earth (1986)
The Lost Road (1987)
The Return of the Shadow (1988)
The Treason of Isengard (1989)
The War of the Ring (1990)
The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth (1992)
Sauron Defeated (1992)
Morgoth's Ring (1993)
The War of the Jewels (1994)
The Peoples of Middle-earth (1996)
The Children of Húrin (2007)
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basic biography
Christopher John Reuel Tolkien was born in 1924 in Leeds, but was mostly raised in Oxford.
He attended the Dragon School in Oxford, the Oratory School in Berkshire and also a great
deal of time with a private tutor. At 19 he entered the RAF during WWII and spent quite some
time in South Africa where he and his father exchanged many letters back and forth. In 1945
he was stationed in Shropshire and then back to Oxford.
His father was not always the best at reading out loud, so Christopher Tolkien had been reading
selections of Lord of the Rings at the Inklings, so from 1945 on it was he who would share
the passages at meetings. After attending Trinity College, he became a lecturer and tutor at
New College until 1975. Christopher Tolkien married Faith and they had a son, but later Tolkien
remarried to Baillie and had two more children. After his father's death, Christopher Tolkien
took it upon himself to organize and publish his father's notes which he is still doing to this day.
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