The Reality of Trees

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Forest in South Island, New Zealand We do not look at trees either as Dryads or as beautiful objects while we cut them into beams: the first...

The Ents' Marching Song

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We come, we come with roll of drum: ta-runda runda runda rom! We come, we come with horn and drum: ta-runa runa runa rom! To Isengard! Thoug...

Transformation

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In the heat of composition I find that I have inadvertently allowed myself to assume the form of a large centipede. I am accordingly dictat...

On Charles Williams' death

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"You will have heard of the death of my dearest friend, Charles Williams and, no doubt, prayed for him. For me too, it has been, and i...

Wycliffe Hall Summer School (click here)

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This is an outstanding opportunity for Christians to grow in their knowledge of God and to be spiritually refreshed in the city where many f...
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The chamber pot

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Kenneth Tynan recalled that his tutor at Oxford, C.S. Lewis, was in the habit of breaking off the tutorial to piddle, noisily, in a nearby c...

Draugluin and Carcharoth

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Beren, in the form of a werewolf (Draugluin) at the gates of Angband, meets Carcharoth, the Red Maw... Before those gates alone they stood, ...

Jack's Letters...

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Anyone know when the third volume of Jack's letters is to be published? I understand it will be under the title of "Collected Lett...
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a hiatus...

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Sorry that there will be a bit of a hiatus during my absence in 'foreign parts' for the next 10 weeks. I will try to post on occasi...
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"Susan, Eve's Daughter," said Father Christmas.

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"Susan, Eve's Daughter," said Father Christmas. "These are for you," and he handed her a bow and a quiver full of ar...

All Hallows Eve

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Lester looked round her. She saw the stars; she saw the lights; she saw dim shapes of houses and trees in a landscape which was less familia...

I am sure...

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... that some are born to write as trees are born to bear leaves: for these, writing is a necessary mode of their own development. If the im...

Beren & Lúthien in Angband

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(Lines 3850 - 3865 of the The Geste of Beren and Lúthien) Into the vast and echoing gloom,________________3850 more dread than many-tunnelle...

YOU MUST LOOK AT IT TODAY... [Click Here]

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An ever-expanding Virtual Tour of Oxford University and City. Now with over 2,500 panoramas from all around Oxford, including most of the co...
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Jack and Joy... and marriage

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For we did learn and achieve something. There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them. I...

The famous Jack Lewis quote on Marriage...

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C.S. Lewis on Marriage Protection “... I should like to distinguish two things which are very often confused. The Christian conception of m...
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Tolkien on Marriage

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more...
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Eden's Courtesy

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Such natural love twixt beast and man we find That children all desire an animal book, And all brutes, not perverted from their kind, Woo us...
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Despair?

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"I will not seek it," the other replied. "It has been opened once and it is enough. And you,are you sure that man can conquer...

The Other Mrs. Moore

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"There was in the grounds of The Kilns when I arrived there, away over beyond the desolate tennis court, a small two roomed weather-bo...