Tolkien-the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings-and through their conversations and debates reluctantly found his belief in the Christian faith reinvigorated. As he lived, studied, and wrote, in Oxford, however, he struck up a friendship with J.R.R. The horrors he had seen in battle, however, caused him to turn away from Christianity and declare himself an atheist. Lewis attended the prestigious Oxford University he left for a time to fight in World War I, but after he was wounded in 1918, returned from the war and resumed his studies. His mother died when he was young, and he spend his childhood immersed in literature and mythology. Lewis was born and raised and Ireland and educated in England.
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