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Christopher Tolkien, the third son and editor of much of his father JRR Tolkien's posthumously published work, passed away early Thursday morning at the age of 95 at the hospital in Draguignan, in the Var region of south-east France.

varmatin.com/culture/christ…
Tolkien once referred to his son as his "chief critic and collaborator", and named him his literary executor in his will. Tolkien organized the masses of his father's unpublished writings, some of them handwritten on odd scraps of paper a half-century earlier.
In the years following, Tolkien worked on the manuscripts and was able to produce an edition of The Silmarillion for publication in 1977; his assistant for part of this work was Guy Gavriel Kay who became a noted fantasy author himself.
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