ACI Prensa Team, January 23, 2024 / 5:30 p.m.
One of the most emblematic museums in the city of Rome, the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, is currently hosting an exhibition on the life of the writer JRR Tolkien, the author of “Lord of the Rings” who starred a determining role in the conversion to Christianity of his great friend CS Lewis.
The exhibition, entitled “Tolkien: man, teacher, author”, which will remain open until February 11, traces the different stages of the life of the English writer John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, whose literary works are imbued with elements Catholics.
As the exhibition highlights, the creative activity of Tolkien, who wrote that “the only remedy for the weakening or vanishing of faith is communion”, could not have developed without his involvement in this called the “Inklings”, an informal group of writers and writers. academics linked to Oxford University who met in the 1930s and 1940s.
This group included important intellectuals of the time such as Owen Barfield and Charles Williams, but the person with whom Tolkien developed a close friendship was CS Lewis, the author of “The Chronicles of Narnia” who profoundly rejected Christianity during this period. . her youth.
