I think the second time I read both Tolkien's and Lewis'works was when I really began to "get" them with my heart. There is a moment in Lewis Chronicles (I think it's in Voyage of the Dawn Treader) when all these creatures turn toward the rising sun and begin to sing in these voices "so beautiful they break your heart." Tolkien has a similar scene in LOTR. Reading both the Chronicles and LOTR have that effect on me. Both writers make invisible truths tangible through invented myth.
I'd like to think that now that they both see the breathtaking reality their separate myths only hint at that they are friends again.
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Do justly, love mercy, walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8
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