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Christopher Tolkien
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Christopher Tolkien's work was ... made more difficult by the fact that his father's prodigious imagination appeared to have gone totally out of control in the composition of The Silmarillion. Tolkien's ability to envision a world down to its last leaf and petal made it impossible for him to finish the work. His tendency to rewrite and revise the book was intensified by his need to reconcile the narrative in The Silmarillion with that of The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings. Characters that are central to the Middle-Earth of The Lord of The Rings, such as the hobbits and Galadriel, weren't originally mentioned in The Silmarillion. The world and the narrative just kept growing larger and larger.
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Christopher Tolkien was born in Leeds, England, the third and youngest son of J. R. R. Tolkien. He was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford and then at the Oratory School. During World War II, he served as a pilot in the Royal Air Force, after which he read English at Oxford University.
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During the First World War John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was a second lieutenant in the 11th Lancashire Fusiliers. He had learned Morse code, the use of signal rockets and field telephones and he served in action as Batallion Signaling Officer.
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[F]or Tolkien, simply distorting existing words (like woc = "cow"!) was in the long run not enough. Already among the Nevbosh kids there emerged something more sophisticated: words that could not be traced to any specific source, but popped up simply because they seemed to fit their meaning - because the combination of sound and sense gave the kids pleasure.
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After 48 hours of carnage, followed by 24 hours in a dug-out, Tolkien's unit was relieved. When he returned to his hut in Bouzincourt he found a letter telling him that Rob Gilson, one of his dearest friends, had been hit by a shell.
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