Christopher Tolkien

[Snowdog]

How in the hell did those movies get into this? Oh well.

...as long as it's an enjoyable read.

Exactly. I'm not one to want to 'get into the mind' of Tolkien, or any author for that matter. I have browsed through Lost Tales 1 while sitting on a bookstore floor, and I've browsed the Lays of Beleriand another time in a store. These are the two that seem to be on every store's shelf around my area, and the content did little to inspire me to buy them, or pursue finding any of the others. I got more from reading Karen Fonstad's Atlas of Middle Earth.

I guess I think of Christopher as an individual, not an extension of his father. Therefore what he writes is his, not his father's, though he uses his father's notes.
I have to hand it to Simon Tolkien, for he writes his own stuff.