Wedding
Christopher Tolkien, the son and literary executor of The Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien, . Just as the elder Tolkien spent his life creating the mythology and characters of Middle-earth, Christopher spent his own life cataloguing and explicating his father's unfinished work. It was thanks to his efforts that was finally published in 1977, giving a narrative account of Middle-earth's history up until the beginning of The Lord of the Rings. Many other volumes followed later, including and .