Are these the fifty you would have chosen?

[Son of Númenor]

Jackson and Walsh listed as number one? Please, no! I am not a movie basher, and I know that this website is geared to the films, but I would move them down to the middle. And possibly there are others who would place them even lower?

I can't understand for the life of me why Peter Jackson & Co. would be anywhere near the top of a Tolkien history list. Perhaps in a Lord of the Rings history they would have a spot reserved after J.R.R., Christopher, C.S. Lewis and Tolkien's immediate family, and in front of Ralph Bakshi, but I don't see what importance they have in Tolkien history; it would seem that such a list would have people who influenced J.R.R. Tolkien's life and writing, not people who re-interpreted his work thirty years after his death. In this case, I would place J.R.R. Tolkien at the top of the list, and his immediate family and the Inklings above all others.