Who was C.S. Lewis’s close friend and fellow Oxford writer who created Middle-earth?

J.R.R. Tolkien was C.S. Lewis’s close friend and fellow Oxford writer who created Middle-earth. Tolkien is best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

Lewis and Tolkien met at Oxford and became members of the Inklings, an informal literary group that discussed works in progress and met regularly at Oxford venues. Their friendship influenced both men’s intellectual and creative lives.

Tolkien was a Roman Catholic, while Lewis became an Anglican Christian. They shared an interest in myth, language, and imaginative literature, but they did not agree on every theological or literary question.

Tolkien’s Middle-earth and Lewis’s Narnia are separate fictional settings. Neither series is a direct continuation of the other, despite the authors’ friendship and their shared use of mythic storytelling.