Tolkien & Lewis: Myth, Imagination & The Quest for Meaning (TV Movie 2017) Poster

(2017 TV Movie)

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9/10
A Spiritual Look at Tolkien & Lewis
Rainey-Dawn22 April 2021
This film does not look that much into the writings of Tolkien or Lewis, instead it focuses on how Tolkien converted Lewis into Christianity and Lewis' journey as a Christian. I wish the film delved into the Christian parallels of The Bible and their stories.

Some Christians might be offended by this video - the film talks a bit about Christian myths - not just truths.

9/10.
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7/10
See ALL Of It!
r-rainwater6 May 2024
One reviewer reports turning off the documentary after 30 minutes.

By doing so, the full explanation of what Lewis and Tolkien meant by "myth" is missed. To be sure, it is an intellectual challenge to follow the various "experts"' explanations of the relationship of "myth" to "truth," but arguably worth the effort.

As explained by the experts, "myth" should *not* be misconstrued as being defined as "fiction," but rather a way of telling Great Truths by means of representative writing, borrowing heavily on legends and stories which are often seemingly universal themes from many cultures.

Tolkien was a devout Catholic and was instrumental in converting Lewis *to* Christianity, not *away* from it.
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3/10
Mythterious Intent
cloberth10 February 2018
Inferences, by a variety of 'experts', made upon the legendary exchange between Tolkien and Lewis, about which, directly, very little is known. This, in effect, was Lewis's 'road to Damascus'. Decorated with 'multi-cultural' personages espousing their learned opinions regarding myth, this is, in actuality, a cleverly disguised argument for the 'fact' and meaning of the resurrection. Christians, in particular, will appreciate it. Others, perhaps not so much.
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1/10
Pure rubbish
beeblebrox-223 March 2024
Lots of interviews with pseudo intellectual academics who have no idea what they are talking about. Watched 30 minutes and turned it off after realizing that this wasn't going to be about Tolkien and Lewis but about a bunch of people droning on about the "myth" of the Moses and Jesus stories.

Tolkien and Lewis were creating a mythology to explain real world issues, and in the case of Lewis, to make Biblical truth accessible.

Lewis would have taken this director and writer along with many of the interviewees, to the woodshed for devaluing the true Biblical stories by defining them as myth.

I do not recommend.
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