https://www.varmatin.com/culture/christopher-le-fils-de-jrr-tolkien-sest-eteint-dans-le-var-a-lage-de-95-ans-448318
(Confirmation from the Tolkien Society: https://www.tolkiensociety.org/2020/01/christopher-tolkien-has-died/)
Tolkien scholars and fans owe an inestimable debt to this great man whose life became defined by presenting his father's work to the world. The vast majority of the published Tolkien corpus is available because Christopher made it so, spending decades sorting, editing, commenting and publishing the enormous manuscript collection that his father left behind after his death in 1973.
In addition to The Silmarillion (1977), Christopher Tolkien published dozens of other works by his father, often detailing painstakingly the complicated manuscript history of various works that would be unknown but for his monumental labors. The academic field of Tolkien Studies was essentially created by virtue of his long work.
He also drew the original maps published in his father's works. What the map of Middle-earth looks like to us is largely from his hand.
He was an accomplished academic and translator in his own right and also wrote fiction of his own. More on his remarkable life here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Tolkien
He was the very last of the Inklings. Namárië!
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If you are among the many Christians who love Tolkien's works and are grateful for what his son Christopher gave to us, please check out The Christ & Tolkien Conference: Visions of Paradise, to be held Oct. 1-3, 2020, at Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois (north of Chicago).
More here: http://christandtolkien.com/
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