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Christopher Tolkien awarded the Bodley Medal
Christopher Tolkien awarded the Bodley Medal
Christopher Tolkien, son of author J R R Tolkien, is to receive the Bodley Medal. The Bodley Medal is awarded by the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the worlds of literature, culture, science, and communication.
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A worthy award for decades of dedicated scholarship.




This is extremely well deserved. He didn't just dedicate his life to curating his father's works: in doing so, he more or less created the field of Tolkien Studies. Without his efforts to publish his father's papers, and his close work with the various journals and academic groups that have been working their way through all those papers over the years, our understanding of Middle-earth would be much smaller
Yes, absolutely. The vast majority of our knowledge of the breadth of Tolkien's world, and the uniqueness of his achievement comes from the work CT has done. We might have got at best the Silmarillion - marvellous, absolutely, but without the depth that came from the story of its development.