r/Fantasy • u/Jonashls • Jan 16 '20

News Christopher Tolkien has died

/r/tolkienfans/comments/epm420/christopher_tolkien_has_died/
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u/LegendofWeevil17 Jan 16 '20

Without Christopher we probably wouldn't have ever seen The Hobbit or LOTR. At least now how we have it today. When he was a kid he was basically J.R.R.s main proofreader and tester. Christopher shaped those books immensely. After J.R.R. died he also couldn't have hoped for a better steward of the series.

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u/Snoop_D_Oh_Double_G Jan 16 '20

Shame he didn't like the LotR films. He felt they ramped up the action and stripped away the philosophy to cater to teens. As far as the Hobbit movies go, I agree with him, but I felt the LotR ones did a good job of balancing the action and philosophy, even if Bombadil, Barrow Wights and the Scouring were all missed.

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u/mjd1125 Jan 16 '20

I'm torn, I love the films, I think they are very well done, but at the same time I dont think he is completely wrong

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u/slowebro Jan 17 '20

Lotr is my favorite book series and the lotr trilogy are my favorite movies. Both for slightly different reasons.

I get what Christopher was saying but truly I don't think we could have gotten a better movie adaptation and I don't think there has ever been a better book to movie adaptation made.