A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: J.R.R. Tolkein, C.S. Lewis, and World War I
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- The First World War laid waste to a continent and permanently altered the political and religious landscape of the West. For a generation of men and women, it brought the end of innocence - and the end of faith. Yet for J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, the Great War deepened their spiritual quest. Both men served as soldiers on the Western Front, survived the trenches, and used the experience of that conflict to ignite their Christian imagination. Had there been no Great War, there would have been no Hobbit, no Lord of the Rings, no Narnia, and perhaps no conversion to Christianity by C. S. Lewis.
These two are showing us what is happening now..🙏
I have only just found this and it coincides with me already going back to reading Tolkien and Lewis so very interesting for that but also it is encouraging for me in revisiting the post WWI period of history and the culture of that period.
Brilliant. Captivating. Insightful.
Thank you!!🙏♥️
Could you please amend the title so that Tolkein reads Tolkien? Hate to be pernickety but it's letting the side down!
it's spelled persnickety
@@boromirofmiddleearth557 Not if you're British, or linguistically informed.
Great talk and profoun knowledge. Just one point: The Lord of the Rings isn't a triology
The Hobbit is considered a preface. Much like Das Rheingold to the rest of the Ring Cycle.
CS Lewis was also philosophy professor & I believe his emphasis was philosophy. Tolkien was the literature professor & a philologist.
I wouldn't say his emphasis was philosophy although he taught that for many years. When he was finally offered a professorship it was in Medieval and Renaissance literature an he was considered one of the leading experts on Medieval literature in his day.
Thuis is inaccurate. Lewis was only a philosophy tutor for a year then moved to the Oxford English School. More info here ua-cam.com/video/9iDQwesfSnM/v-deo.html
No empire of men is the Kingdom of God, yet our lives move in this realm where the Kingdom is manifest in the lives of ordinary beings who pay the price for the glory that is to revealed in us by the grace of God in the Cross of Christ.
Excellent!
he went to the eucatastrophe level! Yes!
Please follow that Guys advice and cast Benedict and Eddie redmayne as tollkein and Lewis
I really wanted to like this, but I just couldn't get past the speaker's over-the-top histrionic tone.
Too much hat, not enough cattle.
Still a great topic.
I think it's because he's a New Yorker and a professor!
I was finding the loud, almost yelling, rant style of his discourse very off-putting. The message is good; the medium rather ugly.