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Podcast: Fantastical Truth
Episode: 191. How Did Lewis and Tolkien Celebrate and Critique Christmas? | with David Bates
Description: Did you ever read the book where C. S. Lewis criticized trumpery? At the holiday season? âThey buy gifts for one another such things as no man ever bought for himself,â Lewis lamented. But he did love Christmas. So did professor J. R. R. Tolkien, who celebrated so hard that he ghost-wrote letters from Father Christmas, from the North Pole, for his own children. What can we learn about critiquing yet celebrating Christmas from these two legends?
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