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Originally Posted by Thinlómien
It's sad CT has become such a "bad" name to so many Tolkien fans of late. I can definitely see where it's coming from but it's a shame nevertheless given how much of what we have of his father's work is thanks to him. Sometimes it's a shame good people act like jerks in some issues, I guess.
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Despite what some people think, I really did want to have a thread that balanced the criticism. Problem is, some people think that if you criticise 'x' for doing something then you can't praise him/her for doing something else. CT/The Estate (of which he is the 'figurehead' shall we say) have been heavy-handed recently, but CT himself has also spent many years in making available his father's unpublished work - possibly sacrificing his own academic studies (his translation of King Heidrek's saga has recently been published by Harper Collins, but it was originally published many years back. He has put him self second, probably feeling that making his father's work available is more important than what he would have liked to do himself. You can't help but admire him for that - even as you wish he could just step back, relax, & let others add their work to the effort. So sad that the Estate could not allow the Hilary biography go ahead - & so wrong of CT/the Estate to force some good, well intentioned peoples' work be cast on the scrap heap. And the more I read of the recent novel Mirkwood the more I feel that its just a harmless romp with a few interesting ideas among the silliness.