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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7896349/JRR-Tolkiens-son-Christopher-dies-aged-95-Tributes-paid-titan-Middle-earth.html

JRR Tolkien’s son Christopher dies aged 95: Tributes are paid to ‘titan’ of Middle-earth who helped posthumously publish many of his father’s works

Christopher Tolkien, the son of author JRR Tolkien, has died at the age of 95

The WWII veteran became an Oxford don and guardian of his father’s works

As a boy his father told him tales of hobbits and he helped shape the characters

Writers and Tolkien scholars around the world have paid tribute to the ‘titan’

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:-(

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*PING* to bags and Melian.

Hat tip to Mairdie

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JRR Tolkien’s son Christopher dies aged 95: Tributes are paid to ‘titan’ of Middle-earth who helped posthumously publish many of his father’s works

Awwwww.

☹

Thank you for The Silmaillion and the other works.

You spent your time on the earth well, sir.