There are those whose love for J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis is so fervent that no amount of detail about these writers is too much. These are the people who read and re-read not just Tolkien’s ring trilogy but also The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales; not just Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia but also his science fiction novels and letters and lectures and maybe even his 1936 scholarly work, The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition.

For all those people — and they are legion — there’s now a very long and detailed book about Tolkien and Lewis and their famous literary club at Oxford, the Inklings — the first such book in more than thirty years.

Read the article “Tolkien, Lewis, and a World Shot Through with Meaning” on freebeacon.com.