Plans have been announced for a Peter Jackson - produced film adaptation of The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel that introduced Middle Earth and led into the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. C.S. Lewis heard and critiqued parts of The Hobbit when the two writers would meet as part of The Inklings, a group of writers living and working in Oxford in the 1930’s and 40’s. Hear how this group got started, how Tolkien influenced Lewis’s spiritual journey and why their relationship eventually cooled.


Guests:
David Downing, author of Into the Wardrobe
Jim Ware, co - author of Finding God in the Land of Narnia
Colin Duriez, author of A Field Guide to Narnia
Laurence Harwood, author of C.S. Lewis, My Godfather
Marjorie Lamp Mead, co – author of A Reader’s Guide to Caspian; Associate Director of the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College
John Guest, rector of Christ Church at Grove Farm
Steven Yandell, assistant professor of English at Xavier University
Peter Schakel, author of Is Your Lord Large Enough? How C.S. Lewis Expands Our View of God

Music Snippets Include:
Cambridge Singers – “Blessed Are Those”