Which author helped C.S. Lewis return to Christianity through conversations about myth?

J.R.R. Tolkien helped C.S. Lewis return to Christianity through conversations about myth and belief.

Lewis and Tolkien became friends at Oxford, where both taught English literature. They were members of the informal literary group known as the Inklings, which met regularly to read and discuss works in progress.

Lewis had moved away from Christianity during his youth, but he gradually returned to belief. Conversations with Tolkien and Hugo Dyson in September 1931 were especially important in Lewis’s intellectual development. Lewis later described his conversion as a movement from atheism to theism and then to Christianity.

The two writers influenced one another, but neither wrote the other’s major books. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, while Lewis created Narnia and works such as Mere Christianity.