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Was Dr. Ransom from C.S.Lewis' Space Trilogy based on J.R.R.Tolkien?
When reading Out of the Silent Planet, it struck me that Dr. Elwin Ransom, the protagonist, was a philologist like C.S.Lewis' good friend J.R.R. Tolkien. I have seen much speculation to the effect, ...