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Christopher Tolkien: Dark Lord
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Next to his work as editor of his father's writings, Christopher Tolkien ... made several recordings of passages from The Silmarillion (Of Beren and Lúthien, 1977; Of the Darkening of Valinor and Of the Flight of the Noldor, 1978). He thus continued a task he had already begun in the 1940s, when he had been appointed to read out aloud each new chapter of The Lord of the Rings at the meetings of the Inklings—who generally agreed that he did a much better job at this than his father. He also read the chapter The New Shadow (published 1996 in The Peoples of Middle-earth) at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford during the 1992 Tolkien Centenary Conference.
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For several years after his father's death, Christopher Tolkien compiled a Silmarillion narrative. Christopher's intentions seem to have been mostly to use the latest writings of his father's that he could, and to keep as much internal consistency (and consistency with The Lord of the Rings) as possible. As explained in The History of Middle-earth, Christopher drew upon numerous sources for his narrative, relying on post-LoTR works where possible, but ultimately reaching back as far as the 1917 Book of Lost Tales to fill in portions of the narrative which his father had planned to write but never addressed. In one later chapter of the "Quenta Silmarillion" which had not been touched since the early 1930s he had to construct a narrative practically from scratch. The final result, which included genealogies, maps, an index, and the first-ever released Elvish word list, was published in 1977.
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Tolkien and Edith had four children: John Francis Reuel (November 17, 1917 - January 22, 2003), Michael Hilary Reuel (October 1920–1984), Christopher John Reuel (1924) and Priscilla Anne Reuel (1929). Tolkien assisted Sir Mortimer Wheeler in the unearthing of a Roman Asclepieion at Lydney Park, Gloucestershire, in 1928. During his time at Pembroke, Tolkien wrote The Hobbit and the first two volumes of The Lord of the Rings. Of Tolkien's academic publications, the 1936 lecture "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" had a lasting influence on Beowulf research.
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As far as capturing the voice of his father goes, Christopher Tolkien has done an excellent job of this in The Children of Hurin. The book reads like any classic Tolkien novel down to the way the characters talk to one another and the detailed descriptions of lore and history of Middle-earth. It should be noted to those who liked the lighter-hearted ending of the Lord of the Rings - no such ending occurs here. This a tragic tale from start to finish that makes for a solid read and will have you flipping pages in a non-stop reading marathon.
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With Sauron Defeated, Christopher Tolkien concludes his penetrating analysis of the evolution of The Lord of the Rings. Part One of Sauron Defeated treats the history of Book VI, detailing Frodo's journey into Mordor, arrival at Orodruin, and the destruction of the Ring; Aragorn's ascendance to the crown; the hobbits' return to the Shire; and Frodo's departure from Middle-earth. In addition, Christopher Tolkien presents for the first time an abandoned epilogue, along with a letter from King Elessar to Samwise.
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In The War of the Jewels Christopher Tolkien takes up his account of the later history of The Silmarillion from the point where it was left in Morgoth's Ring. The story now returns to Middle-earth, and the ruinous conflict of the High Elves and the Men who were their allies with the power of the Dark Lord. With the publication in this book of all J.R.R. Tolkien's later narrative writing concerned with the last centuries of the First Age, the long history of The Silmarillion, from its beginning in The Book of Lost Tales, is completed; and the enigmatic state of the work at his death can be understood.
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