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Ep. 218 - Tolkien as Philologist and Oxfordian Catholic w/Dr. Yannick Imbert

Parker's Pensées

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The Relationship Between Myth and History

Tolkien was probably the most instrumental in bringing Lewis to the Christian faith. Tolkien called the myth refracted truth a splintered truth because we live in the fallen world. The interesting thing is that Tolkien writes about that in a long poem, Misopoia.

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