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WHEN I WROTE A BIOGRAPHICAL ARTICLE ON HUGO DYSON on the occasion of the centenary of his birth ("Hugo Dyson: Inkling, Teacher, Bon Vivant," published in Mythlore, vol. These men became close friends of Lewis. Christian friends such as J. R. R. Tolkien, Hugo Dyson, Owen Barfield, and others, faithfully and patiently walked beside Lewis as they helped him resolve his many misgivings about Christianity. Tolkien, allowed him, for the first time in his life, to see that Christianity expresses not just myth, but true myth, something profoundly real, “a myth working on us in the same way as the others, but with this tremendous difference that it really happened.” Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings. Finally, in 1931, after a long evening of discussing religion and mythology with Tolkien and Hugo Dyson, Lewis spent the wee hours wrestling with the concept of Christ as a divine being and by the next morning had, in fact, become a Christian. Soon after joining the English faculty at Magdalen College, Lewis met two more Christians, Hugo Dyson and J.R.R. Since Tolkien published his epic in 1954, many fantasy writers have imitated his style --British/Germanic folklore… Lewis Southwest Regional Retreat page.. Review of The Company They Keep: C.S. Tolkien read "Lord of the Rings" in Inklings meetings. A still from the 1965 film 'Darling' in which Hugo Dyson had a small role. Lewis and J.R.R. C.S. Then, in the fall of 1931, he had dinner with two faculty members, J.R.R. Click here for the main 2009 C.S. On a fall evening in 1931, Lewis had dinner with fellow professors Tolkien and “Not another elf!” Hugo Dyson said that while listening to J.R.R. He was a committed Christian, who together with J.R.R. They talked until after three in the morning and a few days later Lewis wrote to his friend Arthur Greeves saying, Lewis were having their famous late-night conversation as they strolled along Addison’s Walk outside Magdalen College. Tolkien. Lewis to convert to Christianity. 21, no. The always verbose and entertaining Hugo Dyson was once so talkative, clever, and exuberant at an Inklings meeting that C.S. Lewis recognized that God seeks us … Lewis’ famous conversation with Hugo Dyson and J.R.R. Henry Victor Dyson Dyson (1896 – 1975), generally known as Hugo Dyson, and who signed his writings as H. V. D. Dyson, was an English academic and a member of the Inklings literary circle. While I disagree with Dyson’s assessment, I must admit it’s been tempting to repeat that phrase when reading modern fantasy. He had obtained belief in God in 1929 and would become a Christian in 1931 following a long discussion and late-night walk with his close friends Tolkien and Hugo Dyson. Lewis described him as "a roaring cataract of nonsense" (Collected Letters 2: 288). Tolkien, Hugo Dyson, and C.S. Note: the following blog post is a repost from our 2009 Southwest Regional Retreat Writers Workshop blog. Lewis and Tolkien had been enchanted by ancient mythology, and Lewis explained later in a letter to his friend Arthur Greeves, Tolkien he helped persuade C.S. and Hugo Dyson, a professor of English literature. It took Lewis two years to actually become a Christian though. 4 [#82, Winter 1997]), my primary interest was in addressing the paradoxes of Dyson's membership in … Some forty-five years earlier, also at Oxford, J.R.R.

Tolkien as Writers in Community by Dr. Diana Pavlac Glyer “No man is an island, entire of itself,” John Donne wrote in the 17 th century, “Every man is … Lewis was not won to Christianity overnight.