On Misunderstanding That Hideous Strength with Gavin Ortlund (Part 1)
Backwoods Belief
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The Importance of Time Travel in Arthurian Legend
"The only reason Arthur is in this book is because C.S. Lewis needed to make up for Tolkien's failure to write a time travel story," he says. "I am strongly persuaded that the image of Merlin being introduced back into the narrative has him arising from the dirt."
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