Tolkien is by far the better story teller than Lewis, but when I finish Tolkien I say, "What a wonderful story teller Tolkien is." When I finish the simple Narnian Chronicles I am moved to say, "What a wonderful Aslan is told in Lewis's story." I rate The Fellowship very high and love it. But I still wish that Tolkien had created an Aslan figure rather than Gandolf, Frodo and Aragorn. "Frodo lives" as they say, but that does not compare to "the stone table has cracked and death itself is working backward. The Lion is alive and on the move."
75-word response of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring by Garry Friesen, professor at Multnomah Bible College, www.multnomah.edu. If you wish to sign up for Garry's blog, visit http://blogs.multnomah.edu/friesenfortnightly/
