On Misunderstanding That Hideous Strength with Gavin Ortlund (Part 1)
Backwoods Belief
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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