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TCG Letter #1658


From
C.S. Lewis
To
Lucy Matthews
Date
11 September 1958
Type
Unknown
Transcript
Complete
After Lewis had suggested Lucy Matthews to read The Lord of the Rings, she wrote to Lewis againDate unknown[1] and he replied saying that she had "got it exactly right" on allegory.

Lewis offers an extraordinary commentary on the themes in The Lord of the Rings, the growing darkness of our world and how evil is not defeated, nor victorious, but persists.

1 Date unknown
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Eglerio! In Praise of Tolkien, pp. 43-4
We note our thanks to TCG member Predictable Matt for supplying us with this letter.


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