Thursday, October 9, 2025

The Inklings and Rings of Power of Jack and Tollers

The Inklings and Rings of Power of Jack and Tollers

    Two men who created imaginary, creative, almost endless worlds that go on and on today. Perhaps I have never had a single teacher, professor, priest or general authority, a preacher or eloquent politician ever speak as powerfully as these two could.

    How they wrote! And how Jack, C.S. Lewis used his voice, mind, and oratory, to sway millions. Perhaps even more powerful and inspiring than Sir Winston Churchill himself, when the German death machine moved across the world and the Japanese Empire was eating up the other half, C.S. Lewis and his personalized, lay, "amateur" understanding of Jesus Christ, His Creation, the rest of us, Life and Pain. And Joy.

    The Rings of Power... with the tempting, ensnaring, evil, Sauron. With the good dwarves, elves, humans, and harfoots. And of course, the goodly Wizards.

    Christ reigns supreme, as I learn of Tolkien. Maybe many of us had little notion of what a believer he was.

    Eschaton.

    Tiptrych. No, triptych. Yes. That.

    And many words more!

    Thank you Zaleskis! A masterful work on masters of our imagination and world, and worlds upon more worlds.

    Greater than Arthur C. Clarke now, but maybe someday...

    The worlds will expand. And we will all be part of it. I hope. I pray.

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