Author and philosopher C.S. Lewis is often considered to be the first to write a Christian fantasy story. The Chronicles of Narnia are well known, not only because of the multiple film adaptations and simple writing style being appealing to children but because of the obvious and intentional allegories. However, it could be argued that it is not the only Christian fantasy worth reading, and even fantasy can point us to greater realities already shown in Scripture. Despite the myriad of such tales now flooding the market (whose theological foundations span a number of denominations), there is another source of classic fantasy that could be argued to fall beneath the label of “Christian fantasy”, even though it was never meant to be so. J.R.R. Tolkien, who was a contemporary of C.S. Lewis and a fellow member of the literary club “The Inklings”, is internationally acclaimed for his masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings , which is the sequel to the children’s fantasy novel, The Hobbit ....