![]() ![]() They had both personal and professional reasons for this interest. What was it about "fairy stories" that led these two men to want to rehabilitate them for a modern audience-adults as well as children? ![]() ![]() You have said that if it hadn't been for the friendship between Tolkien and Lewis, the world would likely never have seen The Narnia Chronicles, The Lord of the Rings, and much else. Tolkien and Lewis shared the belief that through myth and legend-for centuries the mode many cultures had used to communicate their deepest truths-a taste of the Christian gospel's "True Myth" could be smuggled past the barriers and biases of secularized readers.Ĭhristian History managing editor Chris Armstrong reached Colin this week at his home in Leicester, England. Duriez tells the story of how these two brilliant authors met, discovered their common love for mythical tales, and pledged to bring such stories into the mainstream of public reading taste. Yet if two young professors had not met at an otherwise ordinary Oxford faculty meeting in 1926, those wondrous lands would still be unknown to us.īritish author Colin Duriez, who wrote the article "Tollers and Jack" in issue #78 of Christian History, explains why this is so in his forthcoming book Tolkien and C. Our world would be poorer without two other worlds: Narnia and Middle-earth. ![]()
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