Richard Ovenden OBE is Bodley’s Librarian. Catherine McIlwaine is the Tolkien Archivist at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.

• CONTENTS1 Catherine McIlwaineIntroductionTimeline2 Maxime H. PascalEulogy delivered at Christopher Tolkien’s funeral3 Priscilla TolkienA Personal Memory4 Vincent FerréThe Son Behind the Father: Christopher Tolkien as a Writer5 Verlyn FliegerListening to the Music6 John GarthThe Chronology of Creation: How J.R.R. Tolkien Misremembered the Beginnings of his Mythology7 Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull‘I Wisely Started with a Map’: J.R.R. Tolkien as Cartographer8 Carl F. HostetterEditing the Tolkienian Manuscript9 Stuart D. LeeA Milestone in BBC History? The 1955-56 Radio Dramatization of The Lord of the Rings10 Tom ShippeyKing Sheave and The Lost Road11 Brian SibleyDown from the door where it began… Portal images in The Hobbit and The Lord of the RingsBibliography for Christopher TolkienNotesAbout the ContributorsFurther ReadingPicture CreditsIndex

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Richard Ovenden OBE is Bodley’s Librarian. Catherine McIlwaine is the Tolkien Archivist at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.

• CONTENTS1 Catherine McIlwaineIntroductionTimeline2 Maxime H. PascalEulogy delivered at Christopher Tolkien’s funeral3 Priscilla TolkienA Personal Memory4 Vincent FerréThe Son Behind the Father: Christopher Tolkien as a Writer5 Verlyn FliegerListening to the Music6 John GarthThe Chronology of Creation: How J.R.R. Tolkien Misremembered the Beginnings of his Mythology7 Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull‘I Wisely Started with a Map’: J.R.R. Tolkien as Cartographer8 Carl F. HostetterEditing the Tolkienian Manuscript9 Stuart D. LeeA Milestone in BBC History? The 1955-56 Radio Dramatization of The Lord of the Rings10 Tom ShippeyKing Sheave and The Lost Road11 Brian SibleyDown from the door where it began… Portal images in The Hobbit and The Lord of the RingsBibliography for Christopher TolkienNotesAbout the ContributorsFurther ReadingPicture CreditsIndex

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Richard Ovenden OBE is Bodley’s Librarian. Catherine McIlwaine is the Tolkien Archivist at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.

• CONTENTS1 Catherine McIlwaineIntroductionTimeline2 Maxime H. PascalEulogy delivered at Christopher Tolkien’s funeral3 Priscilla TolkienA Personal Memory4 Vincent FerréThe Son Behind the Father: Christopher Tolkien as a Writer5 Verlyn FliegerListening to the Music6 John GarthThe Chronology of Creation: How J.R.R. Tolkien Misremembered the Beginnings of his Mythology7 Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull‘I Wisely Started with a Map’: J.R.R. Tolkien as Cartographer8 Carl F. HostetterEditing the Tolkienian Manuscript9 Stuart D. LeeA Milestone in BBC History? The 1955-56 Radio Dramatization of The Lord of the Rings10 Tom ShippeyKing Sheave and The Lost Road11 Brian SibleyDown from the door where it began… Portal images in The Hobbit and The Lord of the RingsBibliography for Christopher TolkienNotesAbout the ContributorsFurther ReadingPicture CreditsIndex

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