Addison’s Walk, 19/20th September 1931

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Just before 3am on the Sunday morning of the 20th September, Tolkien, Lewis and another Inkling, Hugo Dyson, took a stroll along the Cherwel...

In the graveyard...

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In the graveyard of Holy Trinity Church in Headington Quarry, Oxford, lies buried a professor of Medieval and Renaissance English. As befit...

The Genesis...

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An undergraduate at University College, Edward Tangye Lean, formed a club called 'The Inklings'. Its members met for the purpose of...

Bors to Elayne (Kings Coins - Final)

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The Archbishop answered the lords; his words went up through a slope of calm air: 'Might may take symbols and folly take treasure, an...
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Bors to Elayne (Kings Coins - III)

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Taliessin's look darkened; his hand shook while he touched the dragons; he said 'We had a good thought. Sir, if you made verse you...

Bors to Elayne (Kings Coins - II)

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They had the coins before the council. Kay, the king's steward, wise in economies, said: 'Good; these cover the years and the mile...

Bors to Elyane: on the King's Coins

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Over the next week or so we will have the opportunity of reading excerpts from Charles Williams "Bors to Elayne: on the King's Coin...

Lewis on Taliessin

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Dec. 15th 1945 ... I am (these last 6 months) immersed in a v. different poet who I think great – Charles Williams: the two volumes of hi...

A Carol of Amen House

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Over this house a star Shines in the heavens high, Beauty remote and afar, Beauty that shall not die; Beauty desired and dreamed, Fol...
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Perfection according to Lewis

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In The Weight of Glory Lewis explains the perfection that God will work in us as we are sanctified, resurrected, and glorified. He distingu...

Williams on 'Exchange'

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Charles talked and wrote a great deal about the practice of "exchange". It was one of the root rules of the Company. One made a ...

Tolkien's Muse...

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... If you wanted to go on from the end of The Hobbit I think the ring would be your inevitable choice as the link. If then you wanted a la...

Small sins, according to Screwtape

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You will say that these are very small sins; and doubtless, like all young tempters, you are anxious to be able to report great wickedness. ...

Tolkien and the Nazis

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This is from a letter Tolkien wrote to the German publishers Rutten & Loening Verlag in 1938. Before translating and publishing "T...

Lewis and Salvation by Grace...

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What did Lewis have to say on salvation by grace?  In the 'tome'  English Literature in the Sixteenth Century Excluding Drama, he o...

Charles Williams - A minor Inkling?

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He never tried, like Dante or Byron, to effect the course of history.  He observed, he loved, he prayed, he laughed and talked, and, above a...

C.S. Lewis on delight, lust and temptation

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(from Lewis circa 1930 )   I got such a sudden intense feeling of delight that IT (ie God) sort of stopped me in my walk and spun me rou...