At the C.S. Lewis Lecture on Tuesday evening at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, the scholar Holly Ordway discussed the legendary friendship between Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, which ...

C.S Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien were the two most famous members of the Inklings, an informal literary club that met at Oxford in the mid-20th century (photo: Alamy).

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.

It turns out that C.S. Lewis enjoyed the idea of Númenor so much that he explored similar themes of a fallen society in The Chronicles of Narnia prequel, The Magician's Nephew.

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 ...

This group included some important intellectuals of the time such as Owen Barfield and Charles Williams, but the person with whom Tolkien developed a close friendship was C. S. Lewis, the author ...

I go back and forth as to whether it’s a gob-smacking coincidence or incredibly overdetermined that two of the principal architects of the modern fantasy tradition, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis ...

C.S. Lewis, pictured, befriended his fellow author J.R.R. Tolkien at Oxford. They shared the first imaginings of their respective mythical worlds, Narnia and Middle-earth, with each other in ...

G.K. Chesterton (l) and C.S. Lewis (photo: Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain) Joseph Pearce Blogs October 17, 2022 There are two types of people in the world: those who prefer G.K. Chesterton to C ...

Now playing at the Taproot Theater, this play, adapted from Colin Duriez’s novel Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship, is not a play about C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as authors, but ...

There is no mention of a friendship with the Gordons in any of Lewis's published biographies or correspondence, so Cossio concluded the connection was through a common friend, i.e., Tolkien ...