You may not be aware of this, but authors JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis were very close and shared an important and complex friendship. Today we know them around the world as the creators of Middle-earth and Narnia. Their respective series The Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia are among the most well known fantasy books ever written. But without the persistent encouragement of his friend, Tolkien would never have completed The Lord of the Rings. Likewise, Lewis’ fiction bears the mark of Tolkien’s influence.

This amusing fan fiction post about literary superstars JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis frames them as frenemies arguing about their original characters. Squabbling over whether to call them elves of elfs and if lampposts and Santa belong in fantasy. It is both hilarious and likely somewhat accurate. It’s easy to imagine them tearing apart each others manuscripts jealously (metaphorically of course) and mocking each others work playfully. Although the early 20th century seems like a crazy long time ago, have people really changed that much? If they had computers they would have been memeing each other just like we do. Anyway, along with the silly fan fic, there is also a comic below depicting this…