291 To Walter Hooper

[Hooper had sent Tolkien a new volume of Lewis's writings, which he had edited.]

22 November 1966

76 Sandfield Road, Headington, Oxford

My dear Hooper,

Thank you very much for the copy of Of Other Worlds. I read it with great interest, particularly those things I hadn't seen before.

With best wishes,
Yours sincerely,
J. R. R. Tolkien.

Too brief. But I am snowed up. I noticed, for the first time consciously, how dualistic Lewis' mind and imagination [were], though as a philosopher his reason entirely rejected this. So the pun Hierarchy/ Lowerarchy. And of course the 'Miserific Vision' is rationally nonsense, not to say theologically blasphemous.