We love and reason because God loves and reasons and holds our hand while we do it...But unfortunetly we now need God's help in order to do something which God, in his own nature, never does at all - to surrender, to suffer, to submit, to die.

Wilson's biography of Lewis. [page needed]

Of Tolkien Lewis writes in Surprised by Joy:


Novelist
In addition to his scholarly work Lewis wrote a number of popular novels including the science fiction Space Trilogy for adults and the Narnia fantasies for children. Mere Christianity The Problem of Pain and Miracles were all concerned to one degree or another with refuting popular objections to Christianity such as "How could a good God allow pain to exist in the world?".

Media coverage of his death was minimal; he died on 22 November 1963—the same day that U. Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) commonly called C.  S.