Christopher Tolkien, the son of J.R.R. Tolkien who oversaw The Lord of the Rings author's estate, dies at 95

The New York Times

Since his father's death in 1973, Christopher Tolkien has worked to keep his father's work alive in the world, including with the Peter Jackson films and the forthcoming Amazon Lord of the Rings series. As The New York Times notes in its obituary, the younger Tolkien "was his father’s literary executor but played a far more expansive role than that title usually implies. While the elder Tolkien was writing The Lord of the Rings, he was also creating a vast world of legends and mythologies that he hoped would accompany the book. But he was a notorious perfectionist and was never able to put this work in publishable form before he died."