The Father Christmas letters

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Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R.Tolkien’s children. Inside would be a letter in strang...

Pattern

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[Image - Eddie Bairstow] Some believe the slumber Of trees is in December When timber's naked under sky And squirrel keeps his chamber....

Born to write?

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I am sure 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 ...
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Mere Theology (II)

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While we are on the subject of 'Mere Theology', mention must be made of Will Vaus's book of the same name, but much more intimat...

Mere Theology

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From my post on the 1st December: "And now the world has changed. Could we imagine a book called "Mere Christianity" having s...

Happy Birthday?

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I'm sure you knew it, but November 29th was the anniversary of C. S. Lewis's birth (to call it his "birthday" is surely pu...
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"Gil-galad was an Elven-king"

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Weathertop Hollow New Zealand (Sung by Sam to the company on Weathertop before the attack of the Nazgül) Gil-galad was an Elven-king. Of him...

Will Vaus' Oxford Visit

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[Will on the bridge across the Isis with Port Meadow in the background] Long term readers of this blog will have 'clicked through' ...

Sweet?

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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...

C.S. Lewis at the BBC (II)

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Assessing Lewis as a broadcaster Lewis made the connection with the audience as strongly as he could in this first broadcast. He insists tha...

C.S. Lewis at the BBC

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Content of the first broadcast The first talk sets out the theme for the whole series. Lewis's very first sentence and what follows is w...

A Foreword

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I dedicate the book to all admirers of Bilbo, but especially to my sons and daughter, and to my friends the Inklings. To the Inklings, becau...

A Prologue

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This tale is drawn from the memoirs of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, preserved for the most part in the Great Red Book of Samwise. It has been wr...

Eternal Love?

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[Image: The Plains of Heaven - John Martin (Tate Gallery)] Theologians have sometimes asked whether we shall "know one another" in...

Deception

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Iron will eat the world's old beauty up. Girder and grid and gantry will arise, Iron forest of engines will arise, Criss-cross of iron c...

Charles Williams Society Conference

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To being to an end this series of readings from and about Charles Williams, a note reminding readers of an event this weekend. On Saturday 2...
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All Hallows Eve

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The hate seemed to swell in a nightmare bubble within the rose which was forming round them, cloud in cloud, overlying like petals. Simon ma...

T.S. Eliot on Charles Williams

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"For him there was no frontier between the material and the spiritual world. Had I ever to spend a night in a haunted house, I should ...
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Williams on Evelyn Underhill

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It was in October 1937 that I met her first--invited to tea with her in her Campden Hill Square house. She had just had one of her bad illne...
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A supernatural moral law?

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"... where Williams differs from (other) writers... is in his portrayal of a world of supernatural moral law governing the interaction ...
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