Today — the day this column is published — is the final day of Advent 2020. If the world doesn’t end tonight, tomorrow morning it will be Christmas. In the Narnia stories of C.S. Lewis, Father Christmas makes an important appearance, delivering gifts to the four Pevensie children in “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.” By contrast, there is no explicit reference to Christmas in the famous Middle-earth writings of Lewis’s close friend J.R.R. Tolkien — not in “The Hobbit,” “The Lord of the Rings” or any ot … (read more)
