From Christian Week-In the wake of the Paris and Beirut attacks, it is easy to feel a darkness descending. What hope is there when people are willing to do such terrible and heinous things to others?
If there is any comfort in history, it is in knowing that we are not the first to feel this way, or go through this experience.
Two men who experienced the worst that humans can do to each other were J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the Lord of the Rings, and C.S. Lewis, who wrote the Chronicles of Narnia.
Both men were soldiers in the British army on the western front in World War One. Tolkien participated in two attacks, in July and October, 1916, including one where he was in combat for 50 straight hours.
On November 8 of that year, he was sent to hospital with trench fever. He never returned to the front—which probably saved his life.
More here-
http://www.christianweek.org/j-r-r-tolkien-c-s-lewis-great-war-present-darkness/
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