[aruanan]

His Oxford friends included fellow don C.S. Lewis, author of "The Chronicles of Narnia." When they met, Lewis was a skeptic. Tolkien has the distinction of bringing back to the Christian fold the greatest Christian apologist of the 20th century.

I don't remember Lewis crediting Tolkien with this.

[Taliesan]

Tolkein was an influence, among many. "...Bringing back to the...fold" is too strong.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Twelve days after that memorable September night, Lewis wrote to a friend, “I have passed on from believing in God to definitely believing in Christ—in Christianity. My talk with Dyson and Tolkien had a good deal to do with it.”

See this post:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1048629/posts