Oh my goodness--SO GOOD. Evidently Lewis and Tolkien challenged each other to write a space story or a time travel story. Lewis liked science fiction (a fan of H.G. Wells), so he wrote the first one, making his protagonist a philologist like Tolkien. Tolkien never wrote his time travel story, but the idea does show up in the Narnia books.
Woo hoo!!!
So excited! I’m reading (rereading) C. S. Lewis’s space trilogy this weekend. It’s been a few years.
Oh! I’ve not read that trilogy yet.
Oh my goodness--SO GOOD. Evidently Lewis and Tolkien challenged each other to write a space story or a time travel story. Lewis liked science fiction (a fan of H.G. Wells), so he wrote the first one, making his protagonist a philologist like Tolkien. Tolkien never wrote his time travel story, but the idea does show up in the Narnia books.