Lewis said that meeting Tolkien triggered two of his childhood prejudices. He explains, “At my first coming into the world I had been (implicitly) warned never to trust a [Catholic], and at my first coming into the English Faculty (explicitly) never to trust a philologist. Tolkien was both.”
Oh, how our opposites can rub us but, if we hang in there, can rock-tumble us into a gleaming, smooth stone
