J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Against the World
Reviewing Joseph Loconte’s ‘The War for Middle Earth: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Confront the Gathering Storm, 1933–1945’
As Nazi bombers sailed over the London skies, raining destruction upon the ground below, one of the countless buildings hit housed the second printing of The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien’s first foray into popular literature, neatly bound and awaiting new and eager readers. Book sales suffered along with everything else.
Books are, as I say in my new book The …
