Christopher Tolkien, who was described as a faithful steward of Middle Earth, the fantasy kingdom his father built, has died at the age of 95.
His death was confirmed by Daniel Klass, Mr. Tolkien’s brother-in-law.
Tolkien, who was born in Leeds in 1924, was the third and youngest son of the revered fantasy author and his wife Edith. He grew up listening to his father’s tales of Bilbo Baggins, which later became the children’s fantasy novel, The Hobbit.
Christopher, the third son of the famous author, was responsible for cataloging, editing and publishing numerous works that had been unpublished to the death of his father, in 1973, including the work The Silmarillion. He also drew many of the maps detailing the fictional world of Middle-earth, where the action of Tolkien’s main novels takes place.
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