Have either of you read the History of Middle Earth? There are at least 6 books in that series devoted to the work aside from the Hobbit and LOTR. The development from the early Silmarillion to the published version is tracked in detail. It's hard to hide a fraud of the proportions you guys are suggesting when the entire evolution of the book is documented. Christopher would have had to invent not only the finished product, but then also the detailed connections between all the drafts, down to changes in the spelling as Tolkien revised his languages. There's simply no need for Christopher to have done this, when his father's work was so extensive. Even in this 12-volume series, there are still unpublished texts by Tolkien.
I'd really be interested in seeing a link.
[Edit: I did find
this.
First in England, then in France, he reassembled the parts of The Silmarillion, making it more coherent, added padding here and there, and published the book in 1977, with some remorse. "Right away I thought that the book was good, but a little false, in the sense that I had had to invent some passages," he explains.
I think "padding" doesn't really qualify as Chris writing the book, nor composing it from napkins. I realize there were scraps of notes, but most of the main tales were written in great--overwhelming--detail by his father.
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