#christopher tolkien

[danman007]

He told the truth.

[kyalia]

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[bobonbooks]

Review: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight with The Pearl and Sir Orfeo

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight with Pearl and Sir Orfeo, Anonymous, translated by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien. William Morrow (ISBN: 9780358724209) 2021 (first published 1975). Summary: Tolkien’s translation of three 14th century poems, retaining rhyme, meter and alliterative schema. You may not realize it, but the various stories of Middle Earth were not the only works of…

Review: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight with The Pearl and Sir Orfeo

[silmarillion-ways-to-die]

[omercifulheaves]

"He does not look kindly on Babel-builders..." J.R.R. Tolkien in a letter to his son Christopher after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

[pollkien]

WHO IS SOGGIER AND/OR MORE PATHETIC

Christopher Tolkien

Denethor

Voting ended onJul 20, 2025

Christopher Tolkien: it takes a very pathetic and soggy guy to edit your father’s ramblings and then publish it. Also removed Celegorm’s golden hair because he’s a dick.

Denethor: Tomato. Also he was a lot sadder and more of a cringe fail despairing dilf in the books. Set himself on fire and then ran what seemed like one whole km while on fire to plummet to his death. Dedicated

[judgingbooksbycovers]

The Bovadium Fragments: Together with The Origins of Bovadium

By J.R.R. Tolkien.

Edited by Christopher Tolkien.

[fght-ff-yr-dmns]

The Fall of Gondolin

By J.R.R. Tolkien

So, it's taken me two months but I finally finished Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell. Which is a title I really couldn't recommend more. I hope I get the chance to return to that world again someday.

Next up is Tolkien's The Fall of Gondolin.

I thought The Children of Hurin was a masterpiece, and it bewilders me that more people don't talk about it. Hopefully, this novel will live up to expectations too.