All That Is Gold Is Not Glitter

Roxanne Jones: The poem is partly a defensive, a certain long-legged ranger we all love. She says Tolkien was saying to Lewis that maybe myths don't have value because they seem like shabby relics of an earlier time. But there is a real value deep inside them and there is nobility to them, she says. Jones: In this case, cast your own small golden scepter down; it's not the authority of a sub-creator but he's not going to set it down.