Who edited J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion, published four years after Tolkien’s death?

Christopher Tolkien edited J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion, published in 1977, four years after his father’s death.

The book is a collection of mythic and historical material covering the creation of Tolkien’s world, the Valar, the Elves, the First Age, and the later history of Middle-earth. J.R.R. Tolkien had worked on these stories for decades but left them in multiple versions and varying states of completion.

Christopher Tolkien arranged and edited the material to create a publishable volume. He later published many additional texts in The History of Middle-earth series. C.S. Lewis was Tolkien’s friend, while Rayner Unwin was a publisher, not the editor of The Silmarillion.