The Friendship of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien

[@CedarloreForge]

one dislike. Someone is in denial of two brilliant minds being friends and enjoying their Creator... :)

[@rockd3021]

You can’t please everyone. Don’t give them any attention and they’ll go away. Let them dislike it all they want! Truth hurts.

[@Kayla-de2vq]

Very interesting. Thank you for taking the time to research and present this topic. It helped me during my English studies.

[@ceciliafraternale41]

Stunning. Anything to add.

[@fastteddyb]

lovely man.. great talk!

[@MrGEK444]

23:50 - on Friendship

[@doctorwhopandora6178]

Yours sincerely share

[@Liopot68]

The content is very interesting, but the delivery is unacceptable for a scholar of that dimension. One learns in the first year undergraduate studies not to read notes for a presentation. It is rigid and disrespectful to the audience.

[@richhasnip5374]

I understand and to some extent agree with your point but it's worth noting that in academic circles (at least in the UK I can't speak for other countries) - reading a paper is the norm. If you go to academic conferences this is what you see: academics literally reading their papers to each other. I agree that it's very strange but it is the custom.

[@Liopot68]

@@richhasnip5374 I disagree. I did my Phd in Sheffield and a PostDoc at the university of Sussex. Nobody ever read from notes.

[@richhasnip5374]

@@Liopot68 Okay, well let's not get into a big thing over it - my experience is that it's very common at academic conferences yours is different. My point really is that it needn't be construed as disrespectful.

[@Liopot68]

@@richhasnip5374 I understand your point. It might also be a generational thing. Younger academics seem to be more engaged with the audience.

[@richhasnip5374]

@@Liopot68 Yes, that may well be true! Perhaps more emphasis is placed on the presentation of ideas now.

[@jackpackwood7760]

Love Tolkien but his views on religion are incredibly flawed and his statements made on religion prove nothing about religion.

[@okfanriffic3632]

Tolkein believed in magic and so did Lewis

[@EveWilliamsMusic]

Rubbish. I say that as an academic in the field. A knowledge of ancient literature and folk tales does not constitute a belief in any form of magick as a real life spiritual practice. Like the biblical Daniel, they simply had a knowledge of many kinds of literature and accessed the part of the human imagination that other contemporary writer's, such as the Bloomsbury group, were not accessing. After the horrors of 2 world wars, writing in fantasy helped them to deal with the big spiritual issues in a way which was safe for their early relationship in that it was more detached than say the war poetry of Sassoon and Owens.

[@DanielHennessy111]

There are always those who live out their Christianity in a spirit of fear. We have much, much less to fear in the fictional "magic" of Lewis and Tolkien than we do in the fear of such things among Christians.