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Sep 4, 2022 · The Real Story Behind How C.S. Lewis Helped J. R. R. Tolkien Shape The Lord of the Rings. It is impossible to overstate how much Lewis and Tolkein's friendship impacted the shape of...
Feb 1, 2023 · One of the most famous discussions in literary history occurred on the night of September 20, 1931 (via The Gospel Coalition). It involved three professors — C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Hugo Dyson — at the University of Oxford near Magdalen College's Addison's Walk.
Dec 5, 2009 · C.S. Lewis dedicated his book, The Screwtape Letters, to his friend J.R.R. Tolkien, and Tolkien dedicated his Lord of the Rings to the Inklings. It was also Tolkien who was the key influence in persuading C.S. Lewis to accept the professorship offered by Cambridge in 1954.
The Inklings were an informal literary discussion group associated with J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis at the University of Oxford for nearly two decades between the early 1930s and late 1949. [1] . The Inklings were literary enthusiasts who praised the value of narrative in fiction and encouraged the writing of fantasy.
Mar 21, 2024 · While Tolkien may have publicly succeeded in recruiting Lewis to his side in the syllabus wars that divided the Oxford English Faculty, Lewis continued in occasional verse privately to vent his animosity towards philology and its leading Oxford exponent: H. C. Wyld.
Yet for two amazing writers and friends, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, the Great War strengthened their spiritual journey. Both men fought as soldiers in the First World War. They survived the trenches on the Western Front.
Dyson, Tolkien, and Lewis that became the decisive moment of discovery for C.S. Lewis. Tolkien helped him to understand the most radical truth about Je-sus Christ as the world’s unique, totally-by-surprise, breakthrough of the divine who resolves the world’s catastrophe of human sin, death, and the power of evil.
