『指輪物語』のトールキン、『ナルニア国物語』のルイス、二人の作家の奇跡的な出会いと別れ。ファンタジーの本質を問う、伝記的評伝の名著。

『指輪物語』と『ナルニア国物語』の作者ふたりの、強く分かちがたい絆。トールキンとルイスの友情は、互いの人生と著作にどのような影響を与え合ったのか ...

近代ファンタジーの出発にして頂点である「ナルニア国物語」や「指輪物語」はどのように生み出されたのか。オクスフォード大学のサークルを中心に時代と才能の生成と交流を ...

Understanding the authors' thoughts about fantasy helps us better understand and appreciate their works. Yet, this book is not a critical analysis of The Lord of the Rings or The Chronicles of Narnia.

The friendship between J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis lasted over 40 years and was for each the most important creative collaboration in their lives.

The twelve original essays in this volume are joined by a common interest in the forms the shadows of an author s imagination can take and in analyzing the shapes that can cast such shadows.

It is no surprise, then, that he provides the main focus of this book by expert Inklings writer Colin Duriez. J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy offers another rich resource with much to say to the World War II era and beyond.

"This book explores their lives, unfolding the extraordinary story of their complex friendship that lasted, with its ups and downs, until Lewis's death in 1963.

" "The great importance of [Lewis and Tolkien] is that they have succeeded in restating certain traditional values in a way that they make an imaginative appeal to a very wide audience, young and old, traditionalist and non-traditionalist." ...