JRR Tolkien to join CS Lewis in Westminster Abbey’s Poets’ Corner

J.R.R. Tolkien, the devout Catholic author whose Christian beliefs helped shape The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, will be honored with a memorial in Westminster Abbey’s Poets’ Corner alongside his close friend and fellow Christian writer C.S. Lewis.

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction…”