Lewis on the death of Charles Williams

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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 is...

Frodo in a World of Boromirs (final)

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The pull of liberty is strong, but only for those who know it and treasure it. After decades of public education designed more to produce co...
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Frodo in a World of Boromirs (IV)

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Image: Peter Xavier Price To anyone who loves liberty as our Founders did the difference between the two major parties -- always slim -- has...
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Frodo in a World of Boromirs (III)

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Image: Peter Xavier Price Was Frodo less resistant to the temptations of power than America's greatest president? No, not Reagan, or FDR...
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Frodo in a World of Boromirs (II)

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Image: Peter Xavier Price Boromir, you'll recall, is the Judas of the Fellowship of the Ring. Sworn to protect Frodo the Ring-bearer wit...
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Frodo in a World of Boromirs (I)

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Image : Peter Xavier Price (Written from an American point of view, but very interesting indeed from a British perspective too) One mark of ...
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Love? Or Selfishness...

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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it i...
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On the Passing of Time

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The passing seasons are but ripples ever repeated in the long long stream. LEGOLAS The 'immortality' of the Elves is a subject of e...
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Carcharoth, the Red Maw

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Him Carcharoth, the Red Maw, name the songs of Elves. Not yet he came disastrous, ravening, from the gates of Angband. There he sleepless wa...
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The Song of the Ents

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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...

New Links

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Some New links added... see left

An artificial abstraction?

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We do not look at trees either as Dryads or as beautiful objects while we cut them into beams: the first man who did so may have felt the pr...
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A Delightfully Imaginative Journey

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This is one of the most freshly original and delightfully imaginative books for children that have appeared in many a long day. Like "A...
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The audacious and unabashed believer or the sceptical ironist

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There is ... a quality in his prose that is both ubiquitous and unsettling. Some readers will consider this quality to be a great strength i...

Screwtape on the death of death

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The first thing he did was to lower himself and be born as one of "them." We almost got him killed when he was a baby. But he elud...

Two stories...

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Mary Rogers gives two vignettes of Lewis in Headington in her article "C.S. Lewis — God's Fool" in Oxford , the Journal of ...

Lamorak and the Queen Morgause of Orkney (Final)

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The child lies unborn in the queen's womb; unformed in his brain is the web of all our doom, as unformed in the minds of all the great l...

Lamorak and the Queen Morgause of Orkney (IV)

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The eyes of the queen Morgause were a dark cavern; there a crowned man without eyes came to a carved tavern, a wine-wide cell, an open grave...

Lamorak and the Queen Morgause of Orkney (III)

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When from the sea I came again to my stall King Arthur between two queens sat in a grim hall, Guinevere on his right, Morgause on his left I...

Lamorak and the Queen Morgause of Orkney (II)

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I had gone in summer at the king's word to explore the coast of the kingdom towards the Pole; the roar of the ocean beyond all coasts th...