Time Magazine

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Above is the cover of the issue of Time Magazine which featured Lewis in the context of his novel work on spirituality, The Screwtape Letter...

To Laurence Harwood

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Nothing much has happened to me except that I saw a rabbit yawn . I suppose people who keep tame ones have seen it often but this was a wil...

Looking 'Along' and Looking 'At'

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I was standing today in the dark toolshed. The sun was shining outside and through the crack at the top of the door there came a sunbeam. Fr...
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James Bond - An Inklings connection!

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The year was 1959, Polish actor Vladek Sheybal arrived in England not knowing anyone and unable to speak English. He supported himself by wo...

Under the Mercy

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The grave of Charles Williams in an Oxford churchyard is marked by a stone bearing his name and the terse description: Poet , followed by th...

Williams on Adam and Eve

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They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it. (He Came Down From...

Sweeter also than honey...

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"More to be desired are they than gold, yea than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb" (Psalm 19). One can we...

The Inquisition

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One might think that the phrase of Lord Acton (that "it cannot really be held that in Rome sixteen centuries after Christ men did not k...

Friday 26th January, 1923

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"We went at our talk like a dogfight... He (Smith) and De la Mare are fast friends and imaginative philologists of a type which they ha...

Tolkien to his son Christopher (extract)

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10 April 1944 I sometimes feel appalled at the thought of the sum total of human misery all over the world at the present moment: the millio...

Cobwebby hours...

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I am a barbarously early riser... I love the empty, silent, dewy, cobwebby hours. C.S. Lewis, Letters to an American Lady (30 September 1958...

What happened to the power of the Rings once the One Ruling Ring was destroyed?

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The most widely held position is that with the destruction of the One Ring all the remaining rings also lost their power (including the Thre...

What About the Powers of the Seven and Nine?

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As stated, the Seven and Nine Rings were originally made by the Elves and not evil until Sauron forged the One and later took these rings by...

What Happened to the Rings and Who Held Them?

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For a brief time, all the Rings of Powers were presumably worn and used in Eregion between the time Sauron left the Elves after the rings we...

Why were the Rings of Power Made, and what were their Powers?

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(John Howe) The reason is tied to the regret the Elves had for the passage of time. The Elves were immortal and were fated to live as long...

How many Rings of Power were Made?

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The verse in the Lord of the Rings makes explicit reference to 20 Rings of Power: Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for t...

A garden...

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A garden...teems with life. It glows with colour and smells like heaven and puts forward at every hour of a summer day beauties which man co...

Húrin on Thangorodrim

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(Húrin on Thangorodrim [Ted Nasmith] ) Tolkien loved archaic language, in which he often used far beyond the tolerance of the modern reader,...

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, and g...

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 w...