How Tolkien and C.S. Lewis shaped each other

How Tolkien and C.S. Lewis shaped each other — and the Christian ...

How J.R.R. Tolkien's friendship led C.S. Lewis to become Christian

Although his family was religious, Lewis became an atheist in his teenage years. A conversation with Tolkien changed everything. After Lewis and ...

J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Literary Friendship and Rivalry, Oxford

Intellectually, they craved each other's companionship. But their relationship had emotional depth as well. They bonded over their harrowing experiences in the ...

The Friendship of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien | Desiring God

Lewis was originally an atheist, and Tolkien helped him to find Christ. He exerted all his persuasive powers on his friend, focusing upon the ...

How Tolkien and C.S. Lewis shaped each other — and the Christian ...

The scholar Holly Ordway discussed the legendary friendship between Lewis and JRR Tolkien, which shaped some of the most widely-celebrated English literature ...

What was the relationship between J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis like?

When Lewis and Tolkien first met, they did reportedly make a good impression on each other, but they had opposite views. Lewis studied ...

What were Tolkien's views of C.S. Lewis as a writer? : r/tolkienfans

He may also have felt uncomfortable with Lewis preaching on Christian issues as a layman, since Tolkien as a Catholic felt that was the domain ...

Tolkien vs. Lewis on Faith and Fantasy - Official Site | CSLewis.com

Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien were close friends and fellow Christians. I thought it was obvious on first reading that Lewis was writing faith- ...

The Daily Heller: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien Together Again

Lewis was a very devout Christian. But his mission was to inform doubters in God. How did this emerge in his work? As readers will learn in the ...

Why do many Evangelicals love C.S Lewis but not Tolkien when ...

Tolkien while Christian, created a body of work, (LOTR) that does not rely on Christianity, or make a case for it, and is therefore imo better.

True Story of C.S. Lewis & J. R. R. Tolkien's Friendship ...

Conversations with practicing Catholic Tolkien are credited with Lewis changing from an atheist position to reconnecting with Christianity in ...

The Christian Mythology of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien

myths resemble each other because they both point to the Great Eucatastrophe. By creating myths and secondary worlds, men are imitating the Creator from ...

3 defining traits of Lewis & Tolkien's small group of “Inklings”

First, the core members of the Inklings were all serious Christians, including Lewis, Hugo Dyson, Charles Williams, and Lord of the Rings ...

C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien

Lewis. Tolkien helped him to understand the most radical truth about Jesus Christ as the world's unique, totally-by-surprise, breakthrough of ...

Tolkien and Lewis: A friendship - Angelus News

In his autobiography, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life, C.S. Lewis said his friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien “marked the breakdown ...

C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Conjuring of Imaginary Worlds

Lewis speaks of his Christian mythology as The Truth within the world of Narnia just as to him it is the truth within his world, literal and unbending, for all ...

“C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien: Friendship, True Myth, And ...

Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, often in their own words, showing you how they came together, their common ideas, their opinions of each other, their ...

War, Friendship, and Imagination - C.S. Lewis Institute

Tolkien and Lewis had a vision of life that was shaped by their faith and by their experience of war. Let's have a look at it. Heroism. First, ...

Tolkien & Lewis - The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret

Tolkien and Lewis had a deep friendship, and each respected the talent of the other. Each, also, had a huge influence on the other's career.

C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and the Inklings: Telling Stories to Save ...

Some of the Inklings, notably Barfield and Williams, had serious interests in non-Christian spiritualism and the occult. All of them were deeply ...

Tolkien, Lewis, and Evangelization - YouTube

... Dr. Holly Ordway and leading C.S. Lewis scholar Fr. Michael Ward. The pair debate and discuss J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, two Christian ...