So what of virtue? As a scholar of both the classics and medieval literature, Lewis knew the importance of the quest for the good life. It is a theme that recurs throughout both Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia and J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Both show the need for people of character and virtue in a complex and confusing world. Good does not triumph unless good people rise to the challenges around them. Both Lewis and Tolkien show how it is often the weak and lowly who are called upon to undertake great challenges.
