evidence: For writers and academics that sit at the feet of the Inklings, the poem is well known. In the Fall of 1931, the theist C.S. Lewis was moving steadily toward a conversion to Christianity. On Sept 19, Lewis and Tolkien had a legendary conversation with another colleague and future Inkling, Hugo Dyson. They spoke late into the night, arguing about faith and theology and history. When the topic turned to "myth," Lewis evidently made the comment that myths were "lies breathed through silver." [...] While we don’t have Lewis’ response to this particular poem, we do know that it worked. A week later Lewis converted to Christianity, believing that God did, indeed, use myth to tell truths about the world. This conversation took place when Lewis and Tolkien were relatively obscure Oxford dons. History will remember them, though, for having attempted to be mythmakers themselves–to practice mythopoiea, to tell stories of deep truth in deeply creative ways. They did it quite differently–Lewis’ science fiction and Narnia and Till We Have Faces are quite different from the tales of Middle Earth–but it is difficult not to see the effect of this poem on the lives of these two men and on the history of English literature.