translate English to German: Tolkien continued to work on the history of Middle-earth until his death. His son Christopher , with some assistance from fantasy writer Guy Gavriel Kay , organized some of this material into one volume, published as The Silmarillion in 1977.
Unterdessen schwankte sein Gesundheitszustand, und die Gefahr, an die Front zurückgeschickt zu werden, schwebte ständig über ihm.