Tolkien and Asimov - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

littlemanpoet · 10-11-2005, 08:58 AM

Thanks for the intriguing responses.

I should mention that I ran across an article in Mythlore magazine (dedicated to the creative work of Tolkien, Lewis, Charles Williams, and other Inklings) in which Tolkien and Lewis's interest in the current sci fi of their own time (30s/40s) got them to thinking about writing time travel and space travel stories of their own. So for Tolkien it was a longstanding love affair, as it were. It's also interesting that in that Letter I mentioned above, Tolkien said that he pretty much avoided fantasy of the 60s as pretty bad stuff, but liked sci fi. What does that tell you?

10-11-2005, 08:58 AM	#6
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	Thanks for the intriguing responses. I should mention that I ran across an article in Mythlore magazine (dedicated to the creative work of Tolkien, Lewis, Charles Williams, and other Inklings) in which Tolkien and Lewis's interest in the current sci fi of their own time (30s/40s) got them to thinking about writing time travel and space travel stories of their own. So for Tolkien it was a longstanding love affair, as it were. It's also interesting that in that Letter I mentioned above, Tolkien said that he pretty much avoided fantasy of the 60s as pretty bad stuff, but liked sci fi. What does that tell you?