Of Bloemfontein and Sarehole

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Tolkien wasn't a hearty child. At the age of 3 he was brought home from Bloemfontein, South Africa, his birthplace, and brought up at S...

Two Vignettes

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[View of the ‘dreaming spires’ in February 2007 from South Park] Mary Rogers gives two vignettes of Lewis in Headington in her article ...

A Long-Expected Party

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When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnifi...

The Hero is a Hobbit

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New York Times Book Review October 31, 1954 Seventeen years ago there appeared, without any fanfare, a book called "The Hobbit" wh...

Imagined? or Real.

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Remember what Puddleglum the Marshwiggle says to the Witch in The Silver Chair when she tries to enchant them into believing there is no la...
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Good... not safe.

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Susan asks about Aslan: “Is he quite safe? I shall feel quite nervous about meeting a lion.” “That you will deary, and make no mistake,” sai...
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Lonely... I'm Mr. Lonely

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Half jokingly (no, more than half) I've uttered the phrase "You're going to hell," to which a friend has responded "W...
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Secret theme behind Narnia Chronicles is based upon the stars, says new research

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The hidden theme behind CS Lewis' Narnia books has finally been uncovered, according to a BBC documentary... [But read my postings on th...

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...

Williams and the Arthuraid

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Two spiritual maxims were constantly present to the mind of Charles Williams: "This also is Thou" and "Neither is this Thou....

The C.S. Lewis Collection at Taylor University

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(reprinted from Will Vaus’ weblog (link on the left) Taylor University boasts one of the best collections of C. S. Lewis first editions, ori...
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The Paradisiacal Bike

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"Talking about bicycles," said my friend, "I have been through the four ages. I can remember a time in early childhood when a...

A floating paradise

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Over his head there hung from a hairy tube-like branch a great spherical object, almost transparent, and shining. It held an area of reflect...

In Paradise...

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In Paradise perchance the eye may stray from gazing upon everlasting Day to see the day illumined, and renew from mirrored truth the likenes...

The Bent One in "Out of the Silent Planet"

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Out of the Silent Planet saves its allegorical work for the end when Ransom meets the Archangel of Mars (Malacandra). Even there, one has t...
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The Bent One

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After Tolkien on ‘critics as Jabberwocks’, Lewis on the critics, and the opportunities that their myopia bring to the discerning author -- s...
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Stealing Past the Watchful Dragons

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Though in many ways the genius behind the Inklings was Tolkien’s — and the Inklings was a surrogate for an earlier “writer’s club” that Tolk...

The Seed of Dragons

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In 1939, Tolkien gave a talk at Oxford on 'Fairy-Stories', later published in Essays presented to Charles Williams . In this he quot...

Coins, his dragon's loins

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The king has set up his mint by Thames. He has struck coins; his dragon's loins germinate a crowded creaturely brood to scuttle and scur...
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On Dragon Island

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Laying anchor off the shore of the island, most of the ship's company went to the island to restore provisions, repair the broken water ...