I really wonder what that relationship was like. Even though LotR is a bit problematic w/r/t racism… there is no denying that Tolkien was a world-historic writing talent. Humans will be reading LotR 2,000 years from now.

And then you have Lewis, who at best can write some pretty prose but is dogshit at everything else. I mean, Tolkien went out of his way to say how much he hated allegory, and then Lewis writes just about the most ham-fisted allegory you can imagine.

I’ve actually been told by British Christians that they don’t think too much of Lewis, and that his following is mostly Americans, idk.