Science fiction writer Andrew Gillsmith writes a beautiful review of my book THE WAR FOR MIDDLE-EARTH: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Confront the Gathering Storm, 1933-1945: As he writes: “The War for Middle-Earth is more than a literary biography—it is an antidote to the grimdark spirit of our own day. In recovering how Tolkien and Lewis answered despair with beauty, truth, and friendship, Loconte points us back toward the mountains. They still stand, after all. They are permanent things, even when hidden, for a time, behind the gray rain-curtain of this world.” blog.acton.org/archives/127744-lewis-and-tolkiens-war-against-grimdark.html
