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Chip Duncan Film Series: Tolkien and Lewis

June 21, 2018 | 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

On a blustery British evening in 1931, noted authors C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien spent several hours together in Lewis’ Magdelan College rooms at Oxford. Along with fellow “Inkling” Hugo Dyson, the three scholars engaged in a debate well suited to their backgrounds as mythologists. On one side, Dyson and Tolkien argued that Christianity followed similar traditions to other myths but that it was “the true myth.” A former atheist who, at the time, had become a theist, Lewis argued from his non-Christian perspective. This documentary tells the story of that pivotal conversation. (56 minutes)