The Geste of Beren and Lúthien

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For our second excerpt from ‘The Geste’ we find Beren and Lúthien in Doriath before the King Thingol and his consort Melian. (Lines 1,012 to...

The Geste of Beren and Lúthien

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(For our first excerpt, the first 22 lines of the Geste, that, C.S. Lewis praised in it’s first draft, as “melodious movement”, a descriptio...

Of Beren & Lúthien

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Lúthien, called 'Lúthien Tinuviel' by Beren (Nightingale, daughter of twilight in Sindarin), was the fairest of the elven maids of B...

Lewis's Cathedral

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"It's fun laying out all my books as a cathedral. Personally I'd make Miracles and the other 'treatises' the cathedral...
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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. Charles Williams -...

Pride, a Billionaire and C.S. Lewis

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A little while ago, the London Sunday Times published an article on the effect that reading C.S. Lewis had on the life of American billionai...

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 pact...

C.S. Lewis on Walt Disney

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A young American writer, Jane Douglass, had written to C.S. Lewis about making a dramatization of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe but...

A Garden...

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[Image? My Garden in June] A garden...teems with life. It glows with colour and smells like heaven and puts forward at every hour of a summe...
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Gollum

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"Gollum crawling on the ground like a frightened animal, was already vanishing into the gloom. Sam, supporting and guiding his stumblin...

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...

Unity in Christ

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[Image: Easter Springtide - Vitali Linitsky] It is at her centre, where her truest children dwell, that each communion is really closest to...
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The Greater Trumps (Final)

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The storm lifted, and she found herself at the parting of the roads, and there, by the hedge, on the extreme wrong side, was a crouching fig...

The Greater Trumps (IV)

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It was the division in the road where Lothair might go wrong: to take the right-hand path would lead him away over the Downs. If she got the...

The Greater Trumps (III)

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When the word Love had come to mean for her the supreme greatness of man she could hardly remember: one incident and another had forced it o...

The Greater Trumps (II)

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It satisfied, but for no more than the briefest second did she allow herself to remain aware of that. Time to be aware, and to be grateful f...

The Greater Trumps (I)

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Over the next few postings, I will ‘serialize’ part of The Greater Trumps by Charles Williams, hopefully encouraging you to buy and read it!...

Treebeard...

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"... a large Man-like, almost Troll -like , figure, at least fourteen foot high, very sturdy, with a tall head, and hardly any neck. Wh...
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Cair Paravel Knight

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Shortly after the last apple had been eaten, Susan went out to the well to get another drink. When she came back she was carrying something ...

A treat for Narnia-movie fans

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Prince Caspian -- my son has recently posted this to his blog... it's worth a visit: http://misterdavid.typepad.com/