Imagine being a part of this club, i like to think such great quotes from Tolkien in LOTR were born in those sessions.
‘War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend…’ Faramir
I wouldn't doubt that at all. If I was given the "time travel to any time in history," prompt, joining the Inklings would undoubtedly be on my shortlist.
I think it was Lewis who’d said “live near your friends” — perhaps in his “Letters to Children”, or maybe it was “The Four Loves”?
I watched “Lewis & Tolkien” in the Museum of the Bible over Thanksgiving and learned two things for the first time:
1) there was a strain/estrangement between them when Lewis married Joy Davidman. Tolkien’s perspective was that marrying her as a divorcée, made an adulteress out of her. Lewis (per the play) was very hurt.
2) that while Lewis was a big encouragement for, and maybe inspiration of, Tolkien’s LOTR, Tolkien looked down his nose at Lewis’s world-building (or maybe lack thereof, in Tolkien’s mind)
Imagine being a part of this club, i like to think such great quotes from Tolkien in LOTR were born in those sessions.
‘War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend…’ Faramir
I wouldn't doubt that at all. If I was given the "time travel to any time in history," prompt, joining the Inklings would undoubtedly be on my shortlist.
I think it was Lewis who’d said “live near your friends” — perhaps in his “Letters to Children”, or maybe it was “The Four Loves”?
I watched “Lewis & Tolkien” in the Museum of the Bible over Thanksgiving and learned two things for the first time:
1) there was a strain/estrangement between them when Lewis married Joy Davidman. Tolkien’s perspective was that marrying her as a divorcée, made an adulteress out of her. Lewis (per the play) was very hurt.
2) that while Lewis was a big encouragement for, and maybe inspiration of, Tolkien’s LOTR, Tolkien looked down his nose at Lewis’s world-building (or maybe lack thereof, in Tolkien’s mind)