I think you have to take into account the extraordinary amount of work that Cristopher Tolkien put into the HoME series that becomes apparent while reading it. He doesn't just stick together whatever manuscripts he can find from his fathers study, he takes time to read them through carefully giving notes on the most insignificant contradictions with something else in the myth. Not to mention the indexes. It may not have been his genius who wrote the material but without him we wouldn't have the Silmirillion and then where would we be. I think he deserve whatever success he's had. He's also done his father a favour by publishing the changes he had planned to make to the Sil and would have made had he been immortal.
Kudos to him
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"Come away, O human child!/ To the waters and the wild/With a faery hand in hand,/ For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."
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