Christopher Tolkien dies at 95

[guido]

Christopher Tolkien, Keeper of His Father’s Legacy, Dies at 95 - The New York Times

Sad news in middle earth today...

[Saab2000]

I am looking forward to the upcoming Amazon series and am hopeful it is faithful to the original concept although nervous it might not be. It is hard to see this as a TV series but I haven't followed its (the series) origins too closely. The origins of the Tolkien universe as described in The Silmarillion is potentially interesting, though it is not really a tellable story as written.

My avatar here indicates my Tolkien fanboy status. I have read LOTR cover to cover several times and picked and dabbled in The Silmarillion and pop in the movies occasionally, though they've been seen enough that there are no longer any surprises in them. They were generally quite well done though to be even more faithful to the original story they might have been twice again as long and the extended LOTR trilogy I have is already 8 or 9 hours long. They hold up surprisingly well against the awful backdrop of The Hobbit, whose primary redeeming feature is attempting to film some parts of the almost unfilmable Silmarillion story as a backdrop for the origins of the Rings. That story (Hobbit) doesn't have the material for a long film trilogy. One, tops. I digress...

Hopefully the works are still in good hands.

[sk_tle]

I remember the silmarillon as being very painful to read with all the annotations. It was a great way to dig more into the tolkien's world nonetheless.

With the years I have been more attracted with Terry Pratchett's burlesque discworld universe.