Christopher Tolkien is the first son of the author J. R. R. Tolkien.
== Career ==Tolkien had long been part of the critical audience for his father's fiction, first as a child listening to tales of Bilbo Baggins (which were published as The Hobbit), and then as a teenager and young adult offering much feedback on The Lord of the Rings during its 15-year gestation
Christopher John Reuel Tolkien (21 November 1924  16 January 2020) was an English and naturalised French academic editor

