Tolkien and Lewis became very good friends during this period. In The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 282, Tolkien writes, ... In Letters, He Wrote of Santa's Fantastic Adventures .

Lewis and Tolkien quickly found this cozy solitude after they met in 1926, ... The Narnia book, in which the Germanic figure of Santa Claus rubbed elbows with Greco-Roman divinities, ...

Santa Claus attacked by bat-riding Goblins? With J.R.R. Tolkien, anything is possible. Recently my sixth grade daughter -- a huge fan of "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" -- read a ...

Instead of following so many of their generation into disillusion and cynicism, J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis emerged from the Great War with their moral imagination intact.

For two men who built grand worlds of myth and magic, LEWIS AND TOLKIEN is a strikingly intimate and deeply human story—not of great battles or epic journeys, but of friendship, regret, and the ...

Editor’s Note: Joseph Loconte is an associate professor of history at the King¹s College and the author of “A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis ...

Lewis’s first impression of Tolkien was famously underwhelming: “a smooth, pale, fluent little chap,” he wrote in his diary. “No harm in him: only needs a smack or so.” ...

This article, and others about one of the world's most celebrated writers, is featured inNewsweek's Special Edition: J.R.R. Tolkien—The Mind of a Genius. In the 20th century, two British authors ...

Growing up in England, I became a huge fan of the work of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. I even recreated some scenes from “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” in an 8mm film I made as a ...