Mythmakers (Hendrix - hardcover)

Author: Hendrix

ISBN: 9781419746345

Binding: hardcover

Section: Graphic-Novels

Through narrative and comic panels, Hendrix chronicles Lewis and Tolkien’s near-idyllic childhoods, then moves on to both men’s horrific tour of the trenches of World War I to their first meeting at Oxford in 1929, and then the foreshadowing, action, and aftermath of World War II.  The Mythmakers also shows the camaraderie and the importance of the social/literary circle of friends called the Inklings, and how the friendship of these two great men fell apart and came together again. Hendrix concludes describing how the writings of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien had re-enchanted the 20th century, after two World Wars.