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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I guess there's a reason why these posthumous Tolkien books were not published while he was alive. His son Christopher is really doing him a disservice by not letting go of his work.
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The reason that many of these Tolkien works came out posthumously is because Tolkien simply didn't finish them. He was a very meticulous (sp?) writer - which tended to give his books "depth" (that there was a story under the story).
The Silmarillion is really a work by one of his sons, using JRR's notes as a basis. The Book of Lost Tales series is the unfinished, unvarnished, version of JRR's notes. But that set is mainly for those of us who like to read history - in this case, the history of a fantasy world.
Christopher is doing JRR a great service by publishing out all these stories and notes. We would not be able to read them otherwise.
Of course, my stand is that JRR's works shouldn't be under Copyright anymore since he's dead.