LOOKING FOR THE KING author David C. Downing spoke last week to an InterVarsity...

LOOKING FOR THE KING author David C. Downing spoke last week to an InterVarsity group on "Tolkien & the Inklings." Downing argued that Tolkien wrote "The Hobbit" thinking mainly of children as his audience. He wrote the Silmarillion materials largely as a private hobby. But in reading aloud to a specific adult group, his fellow Inklings, his clearer sense of audience allowed him to focus all his creative powers into one epic project, The Lord of the Rings.