When Romantic Religion was first published thirty-five years ago, no one dreamed that The Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia would one day be box office hits and that their authors, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, would be household names. R.J. Reilly’s remarkably readable and perceptive book about the two writers and their two brilliant friends, Owen Barfield and Charles Williams, was soon treasured by fans as the best book on their circle of writer–philosophers, the Inklings.