Returning to the Inklings

An Autumnal Homecoming

Pauline Baynes

I grew up reading The Chronicles of Narnia and the various pieces of Tolkien’s Legendarium—The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion—religiously, but not the way that most Christian kids in America do. I was not told to read it at church (where in fact it was all rather suspect for some of the people I went with) and my famil…