![]() Tolkien then stepped in and used his influence with the publisher Stanley Unwin, who had by this time accepted The Hobbit, to reconsider his friend's work, which duly appeared in 1938, with its two sequels in 19. Lewis had finished his first 'excursionary thriller', Out of the Silent Planet, by November 1937, when he submitted it to J.M. The results of the agreement were very different. discovering Myth', one about space travel and one about travel in time, and the toss of a coin gave time to Tolkien and space to Lewis. According to Tolkien, what happened was that Lewis said to him, 'If they won't write the kind of books we want to read, we shall have to write them ourselves.' They agreed accordingly 'each to write an excursionary “Thriller”. The conversation was with his friend Tolkien, and though Lewis has left no record of it, Tolkien mentions it no fewer than five times in his published Letters, with convincing consistency. ![]() Lewis's Ransom Trilogy sprang, on the personal level, from a conversation and a coincidence. ![]()
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