The Tolkien And Lewis Bromance: The Diana Glyer Interview

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In this episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan talk to Diana Glyer, author of Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings.. She has spent 40 years combing through archives, studying old manuscripts, and is considered a leading expert on C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Her scholarship, her teaching, and her work as an artist all circle back to one common theme: creativity thrives in community. Kyle and Ethan talk to Dr. Glyer about Tolkien, Lewis, and the creativity that can happen in a community like The Inklings.

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Topics Discussed

• Who were The Inklings?
• How does Creativity thrive in community?
• Tom Bombadil and the quiet “homely home” portions of LOTR
• Peter Jackson’s Lord Of The Rings trilogy
• “There are no dentists in Mordor”
• Tolkien caused C.S. Lewis to throw Narnia in the trash at one point
• Differences between C.S. Lewis and Tolkien
• The Chronicles Of Narnia
• C.S. Lewis’ journey to faith and Tolkien’s consistent prayer for his friend
• G.K. Chesterton’s The Everlasting Man influencing Lewis
• What was going on in the third book of Lewis’ Space Trilogy?
• Humans being sub-creators, Mythopoeia
• How much pipe weed did the Inklings go through?
• What is a Bandersnatch?
• Artists need brutally honest criticism to be better
• Diana likes our Decaf Condemned As Heresy mugs and Mt. Writemore mugs in our store

Subscriber Portion

• Which of these modern writers make it into The Inklings or have been promptly kicked out?
• The Chronicles of Narnia movies
• How well did Christopher Tolkien manage to expand his father’s work?
• Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series gets the Game of Thrones treatment
• The Hobbit movies
• Drama and conflicts in The Inklings
• Dyson is the Yoko of the group
• The Ten Questions