Christopher Tolkien, [recently deceased](https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12892/31394), is best known for his work as editor on many of his famous father's stories set in Middle-earth, most famously the *Silmarillion*. He also did work as a translator, and he was an Oxford professor like his father. But was he also an author in his own right?

**Did Christopher Tolkien ever write his own stories? Or was he only an editor / translator?**