Lewis & Tokien Debate Myths

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This is a dramatization of a conversation that Lewis and Tokien once had over myths. Fantastic clip, I’ve watched it a dozen times 👍

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Excellent retelling although the argument they engaged in played out over several meetings and also included Christoper Dyson.

The one true story that explains all the other stories was the children’s search captured in *The Narnia Chronicles. *

Read Alister McGrath’s analysis in a series of three posts** that begins here.** Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia are about finding a master story that makes sense of all other stories — and then embracing that story with delight because of its power to give meaning and value to life.

Hope you enjoy it.

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A considerable amount of this content comes from J.R.R. Tolkien’s essay “On Fairy-Stories”, published in Tree and Leaf and The Tolkien Reader.

Incidentally while I enjoy this clip it’s unfortunate that the actors are so far apart in age. Tolkien was only a few years older than Lewis, which is significant when it comes to the casual relationship between the two that is displayed here, with Lewis calling Tolkien “Tollers” and Tolkien calling Lewis “old chap”. I doubt such a relationship could have existed in the academic world of the early 20th century between two men as far apart in age as this.
 
Paul423 said:
This is a dramatization of a conversation that Lewis and Tokien once had over myths. Fantastic clip, I’ve watched it a dozen times
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Great stuff…many thanks for the link. Do you know what film/programme it is taken from?
 
According to the description, this is a clip from an EWTN program called “Tolkien’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’: A Catholic Worldview”
 
I just wanted to thank you for posting this. Associated with this video, I found a bunch of recordings and films of Tolkien himself which I had never seen/heard before. I had heard that he was “a mumbler” and now I know what they meant. CS Lewis once said, as a public speaker, that Tolkien was “an inspired giver of footnotes,” which I’ve always interpreted as Tolkien having ADHD which would explain a lot.

Anyway, thanks.
 
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