The Fellowship of the Ring is like lightning from a clear sky; as sharply different, as unpredictable in our age as William Blake’s Songs of Innocence were in theirs. To say that in it heroic romance, gorgeous, eloquent, and unashamed, has suddenly returned at a period almost pathological in its anti-romanticism, is inadequate. To us, who live in that odd period, the return and the sheer relief of it is doubtless the important thing. But in the history of Romance itself—a history which stretches back to the Odyssey and beyond—it makes not a return but an advance or revolution: the conquest of new territory. C.S. Lewis, Review of The Fellowship of the Ring, Time & Tide magazine.
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