The latest installment of The Bookmonger podcast features Joseph Loconte, author of A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18. We discuss how the experience of war influenced these writers, how they responded to the disillusionment and modernism of the 1920s, and what they’d say to a critic who accuses them of writing escapist fairy tales.