The War For Middle‑Earth

Based on Mr. Loconte’s New York Times bestseller, A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War, and on his latest book, The War for Middle-Earth, this film explores how the cataclysm of war shaped the lives and Christian imagination of two remarkable authors and friends, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. The devastation of WW1 created a storm of disillusionment with the political and religious ideals of the West—and the new ideologies of Modernism, materialism, communism, Nazism, and totalitarianism rushed to fill the vacuum. During the darkest days of WW2, Tolkien and Lewis sought each other out in friendship and used their gifts of storytelling to reintroduce the Christian story into the hearts and minds of their generation. This extraordinary story of war, friendship, faith, and imagination—offering enduring lessons for our own cultural moment—has never been told before. We intend to tell it.