What C.S Lewis wrote to J.R.R.Tolkien after reading Lord of the Rings ... #Tolkien #LordoftheRings
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Pretty solid rebuff of the common complaints around Martin v. Tolkien
aug 30, 2025, 4:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Interesting.
aug 30, 2025, 4:16 pm • 1 0 • view
I guess he liked it.
aug 31, 2025, 6:02 am • 1 0 • view
Why did he feel the need to write when they were regulars in the same pub?
aug 30, 2025, 4:53 pm • 2 0 • view
My guess is because if you write things down, they live on.
aug 30, 2025, 5:35 pm • 4 0 • view
🤣
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I see even Lewis thought Return of the King had too much ending.
sep 2, 2025, 12:26 am • 1 0 • view
I still treasure the apocryphal "Oh, not another fucking elf!", which turns out to have been said by Hugo Dyson, not C.S. Lewis.
aug 30, 2025, 4:32 pm • 1 0 • view
I love how, after one read, he effectively nailed the same conclusions that decades of discussion haven’t surpassed
aug 30, 2025, 4:53 pm • 4 0 • view
Yep
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