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⭐️⭐️ G.K. Chesterton is perhaps one of the best catholic thinkers of our time. His books, writings and essays have influenced widely over millions of catholic (and non Catholic) people around the world.
Personally, I came across Chesterton and his valuable thinkings thanks to Juan Manuel de Prada, one of the best writers and thinkers of Spain and all the hispanic world.
De Prada conducted an important TV Show called Lagrimas en la Lluvia, where he used to discuss different sort of topics, from love to Science; from the Second Vatican Council to contemporary art.
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| J.R.R. Tolkien |
Always along with scientifics, experts and distinguished specialists in different fields of knowledge.
So, Chesterton was always present in the De Prada dissertations and analysis; giving to his ideas a colourful freshness of common sense and good and smart sense of humour.
On the other hand, an ex girlfriend had given me away a book from Chesterton, that I never read in the past; but I rediscovered very recently: The Man Who Was Thursday.
So, in many ways Chesterton and his thinking is always present, more over in these gritty and dark times of our history.
But what about of the another important and transcendent giant of the catholic literature?
J.R.R. Tolkien never proclaim himself as a catholic apologist in terms of his own literature; but he admitted that, in a non conscious way, he could have impregnated part of his religious thinking in his books and characters such as The Lord of The Rings.
Did they meet each other? We really do not know if they meet each other, since Tolkien really didn't speak about Chesterton at all.
But, we already know that Chesterton Everlasting Man influenced the conversion of C.S Lewis to Christianity; so Chesterton was widely present in his convertion and his way to see and understand the world.
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It is said that Tolkien also helped Lewis in believing in Jesus. So we exactly don't know who introduced the book to who. Tolkien could have introduced the book to Lewis or vice versa.
We also know that Lewis and Tolkien shared a group in which they usually discussed about theology, sharing ideas and points of view about different issues.
Tolkien would definitely know about the literature and thinking of Chesterton, and there are high possibilities that his literature could have influenced Tolkien plots and or / characters.
