Without Tolkien, no Lewis

Can Protestants and Catholics work together? The world would be very different today if we couldn’t.
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Thus it is that without the Roman Catholic J.R.R. Tolkien we never (humanly speaking) would have had the Anglican C.S. Lewis.

Source: Tom Gilson  -  "Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: Catholic and Protestant Changing History Together", The Stream, 4 March 2017, https://stream.org/tolkien-cs-lewis-catholic-protestant-together/