Christopher Tolkien

Christopher Tolkien (1924–2020) was the third son of the writer J. R. R. Tolkien. As literary executor of his father’s estate, he spent more than forty years preparing and publishing his father’s previously unpublished works. These included *The Silmarillion*, *Unfinished Tales*, *Beren and Lúthien*, *The Fall of Gondolin*, and the series *The History of Middle-earth*. In 2016, he was awarded the Bodley Medal for his services to literature.