![]() ![]() ![]() The Silmarillion (1977), a collection of the primary legends of Middle-earth, sold in millionsĪfter undertaking an abbreviated undergraduate course at Trinity College, Oxford, at 17, Christopher trained in 1944-45 with the RAF in South Africa. He encouraged his father’s tendency to hobbit whimsy, only curbed at the urging of the Oxford don CS Lewis. Three years off with an irregular heartbeat from 1938 coincided with early work on a sequel to The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, which was written partly to entertain him. A kinship of spirit, not shared by his brothers, John and Michael, or younger sister, Priscilla, made him “intensely lovable” in his father’s eyes.Īfter his father became professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, Christopher went to the Dragon school there, and later to the Oratory school in Caversham, Berkshire. His father’s imagination struck such a chord with him that Christopher once said he grew up in Middle-earth and found the cities of The Silmarillion “more real than Babylon”.Įven at four or five, listening to his father read The Hobbit in draft, he would point out continuity errors. Illustration: CR TolkienĬhristopher was born in Leeds, the third son of Edith (nee Bratt) and John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, professor of English language at the university there. The map of Gondor and Mordor drawn by Christopher Tolkien for The Return of the King, 1955. ![]()
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