Thread: christopher tolkien
we should really get him to participate in this wbsite and awsere some of our question that would be very cool it would honour his fathers creation ?!!............. is christopher tolkien still alive?
Yes, he is still alive and it would have been better had he participated in this website than have his attorneys 
hound us for posting his father's poetry.
Still he would be welcome here, but I'd suggest he use a nickname; though we probably wouldn't even believe he was him, if he didn't.
hound us for posting his father's poetry. Still he would be welcome here, but I'd suggest he use a nickname; though we probably wouldn't even believe he was him, if he didn't.
I would guess Christopher Tolkien would not participate here, or on any of the various other forums on the web. According to William Hicklin (who, it appears has communicated with CJRT) Christopher Tolkien does not even use E-mail.
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'CT doesn't do e-mail. He's 83 years old, and of another generation. He typed all of his published books on a manual typewriter!' William Cloud Hicklin
'CT doesn't do e-mail. He's 83 years old, and of another generation. He typed all of his published books on a manual typewriter!' William Cloud Hicklin
A bit like an elf really... hiding away from the changing world.
Christopher seems to prefer what he has been used to for many years before home computers came along.
He does answer some questions by fans and scholars submitted to the Estate. And as there is now an official Tolkien Estate website (temporary version at the moment) I would guess he is part of it in some measure, with respect to its existing and its general content maybe, if not in the technical side of things.
Adam Tolkien too, I would also guess.
He does answer some questions by fans and scholars submitted to the Estate. And as there is now an official Tolkien Estate website (temporary version at the moment) I would guess he is part of it in some measure, with respect to its existing and its general content maybe, if not in the technical side of things.
Adam Tolkien too, I would also guess.
WOW he really hounded you about putting his fathers creations on this website hmf, im suprised. whys h care i dont like what this worlds become i wish i could just be a hobbiit in M-E and just be raised to farm not go to scholl get a job ugh. get up in the morning work on your crops go to the green dragon and drink with your buds, NOW thats the life! 
My question would be did Christopher Tolkien himself even know about whatever it was that was on this website?
No, it was the estate's lawyers that did the hounding.
OH i thought he instructed them... okay
I doubt highly that he is 'computerly' illiterate, though he wrote some of 'his work' by hand... There would be no telling of what he could know or see... I personally would look everynow and again to see how the fans are doing, the discussions... Maybe not for legal reasons, just for a nosey 
And he might even find some kudos from the fans in appreciation of his hard work in compiling his father's notes into readable form. 
Perhaps, or not, depending how adamant he feels about cyberspace. I remember his father telling him he was grieved that his son was flying an airplane, he did not approve of them I think.
Perhaps Adam is the one who watches the site and tells his grandfather. Who knows.
I am quite sure many write in care of the estate to tell him of their admiration. He would like real letters I am thinking.
Perhaps Adam is the one who watches the site and tells his grandfather. Who knows.
I am quite sure many write in care of the estate to tell him of their admiration. He would like real letters I am thinking.
Yes, JRRT said some negative things about airplanes.
I guess the Estate or HarperCollins might have people looking out over the interweb for copyright concerns, and only cases of 'importance' (on some level) might reach the ears of Christopher or even Adam Tolkien in any real detail.
Or maybe I'm off about this
Not that the issue here was copyright anyway (I don't know), but if not I'm wondering why the hound was scratching at these doors.
I guess the Estate or HarperCollins might have people looking out over the interweb for copyright concerns, and only cases of 'importance' (on some level) might reach the ears of Christopher or even Adam Tolkien in any real detail.
Or maybe I'm off about this
Not that the issue here was copyright anyway (I don't know), but if not I'm wondering why the hound was scratching at these doors.
It was mainly the maps and Taz had made a poetry section separate from the Forum (like the Gallery where the maps were) and posted entire poems of Tolkien. He forced them to actually sue him before he finally took them down. He thought we were providing them a service helping to keep the books and movies in the public eye: they didn't buy it.
who is adam?
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who is adam?
J.R.R. Tolkien's grandson; son of Christopher.who is adam?
isn't he the one on the filming crew of 'the Hobbit' the one Christopher Tolkien won't talk to?
(or something like that)
(or something like that)
Christopher Tolkien has sons Adam and (by his first marriage) Simon.
I believe Christopher and his second wife also have a daughter named Rachel Clare Reuel Tolkien. I don't know if she has ever married, but that is irrelevant as it pertains to this discussion.
Yep, Rachel was born in 1971 to Christopher and Baillie -- Christopher's second wife Baillie Klass is the daughter of one of JRR Tolkien's friends, and for a brief time was Tolkien's secretary.
And Christopher and Faith Faulconbridge had one son, Simon.
And Christopher and Faith Faulconbridge had one son, Simon.
I think it was Adam Tolkien who played a ranger in the late night Osgiliath attack scene, he was the one handing out the spears just before the attack... Definately a grandson of The Professor.
I think you're thinking of Royd Baker (not Adam Tolkien), who was in the film, and who would be Michael Tolkien's grandson.