About as bad as can be.
J.R.R. Tolkien on his friend C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia, as quoted in “Down the pub with Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: The original ending in the Shire and the influence of the Inklings,” Jon Barnes, Times Online. The article’s really a review/highlight reel of Diana Pavlac Glyer’s new book The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community, a study of Tolkien and Lewis’ Oxford writers’ circle the Inklings. It sounds fascinating. (Via Andrew Sullivan.)