While neither is noted for writing dystopian or futuristic fiction, both J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis wrote of the warped view of eternal life that may emerge in the future. When Middle-earth was ...

THE MYTHMAKERS: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien, by John Hendrix I go back and forth as to whether it’s a gob-smacking coincidence or incredibly overdetermined that two ...

As a teen, authors C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien opened up worlds for me that were both fantastic and faith-filled. I wouldn’t come to understand the deeper Catholic motifs in The Lord of the ...

What might surprise some casual fans of both high-fantasy tales (but will certainly not be news to any die-hards out there) is that authors J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis were longtime friends.

Heaven vs. Hell, really. While Lewis and Tolkien enjoy fame as individuals, Barfield remains “an Inkling,” known mainly because of his intermittent participation in the gatherings at the Eagle ...

Tolkien and Lewis used to be a part of a fantasy literary group, the Inklings, and have known each other for more than 30 years. At the start of this play, the two reunite after having not seen ...

The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien is a remarkable tale of a literary friendship that changed the course of publishing, storytelling and myth-making forever.

The Lewis brothers liked to walk vigorously, covering lots of ground; Tolkien preferred to amble, stopping every few hundred yards to look at a flower or a tree. The brothers became increasingly ...

Sometime in 1932–1933, both Lewis and Tolkien were serving as examiners in Oxford's English school along with E.V. Gordon, a professor of English language. Tolkien himself wrote a short ...

J.R.R. Tolkien drew on many sources of inspiration to create Middle Earth, including his religious beliefs which shaped the ...