Ep. 66 - Christopher Tolkien, 1924-2020 - John Garth

The Catholic Culture Podcast · Feb 12, 2020 · 1h 8m

This is a tribute to Christopher Tolkien, who passed away on Jan. 16, 2020. Without Christopher's decades of dedicated scholarship, most notably his editing and publication of The Silmarillion, our knowledge of J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world and very real genius would be considerably disadvantaged. Tolkien scholar John Garth, author of the acclaimed biography Tolkien and the Great War, joins the show to discuss a father-son collaboration unique in literary history.

Contents

[5:36] How Christopher Tolkien helped John in working on his book

[13:40] The significance of the chronology of the…