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C.S. Lewis and Tolkien: Religion and War Creates a Friendship…
C.S. Lewis and Tolkien: Religion and War Creates a Friendship
CHRISTIANITY
C.S, Lewis was raised Christian
Mothers Death
Turned atheist
His spiritual journey was shaped by the untimely death of his mother and a lasting estrangement from his father
also by his interest in the paranormal
and the violence he suffered in World War I in France
Recovered his faith at the midpoint of his life
in search of Joy
George MacDonald G.K Chesterton
Joined a circle of Christian Scholars, notably J. R. R. Tolkien
THE INKLINGS
Medievalist, Religious, wrote literary criticism
Christian, Fantasist, conservative/reactionary literature
his fathers death and Tolkien's friendship
CHRISTIANITY
Tolkien was raised Christian
Death of his father
Middle age
Teacher at Oxford
Retirement
World War I
Influenced C.S. Lewis's faith in Christianity