A day out...

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Sunday 29 October [1922] Immediately after breakfast I got out my bicycle and started for Forest Hill. It was one of the coldest days we ...
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The Lay of the Children of Húrin

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Tolkien loved archaic language, in which he often used far beyond the tolerance of the modern reader, when he wrote alliterative verse. He s...

The Geste of Beren and Lúthien

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Rivers of fire at dead of night in winter lying cold and white upon the plain burst forth, and high the red was mirrored in ...

Lewis on Ethics

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Let us very clearly understand that, in a certain sense, it is no more possible to invent a new ethics than to place a new sun in the sky. S...

About Hell

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All I have ever said is that the N.T. plainly implies the possibility of some being finally left in 'the outer darkness.' Whether t...

The Jabberwock

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"… the critic metamorphoses into the monster of the jabberwock, an unnatural creature that symbolises… perversion… This creature create...

Towards the Gleam - A Review

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Just occasionally a book comes along that grasps the reader from the first page, but often disappoints by the time the denouement is reached...
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Reading Charles Williams: A Prolegomena

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The work of Charles Walter Stanley Williams (1888-1945) is not likely to spawn a blockbuster motion picture, although I would like to see on...
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Jack and Joy

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Joy (then) Gresham at her second meeting (September 1952) with Jack and Warnie, on being given a single glass of sherry before their meal, ...

Assessing Lewis as a broadcaster

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Lewis made the connection with the audience as strongly as he could in this first broadcast. He insists that he is not preaching, and in co...

C.S. Lewis' first broadcast

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The first talk sets out the theme for the whole series. Lewis's very first sentence and what follows is what journalists would call a ...

Charles Williams on P.G. Wodehouse

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Barbara stretched out her hands, and Lionel pulled her to her feet. "I just want to shimmer up, like Jeeves, not walk," she said. ...

Elizabeth Taylor's connection to the Inklings

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As we all know, Elizabeth Taylor died yesterday, perhaps a good time to remember her connection with one of the Inklings. Richard Jenkins wo...

JRRT to Christopher Tolkien

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[Image: Paul Nash] 10 April 1944 I sometimes feel appalled at the thought of the sum total of human misery all over the world at the presen...

Of Tuor and his coming to Gondolin

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My father said more than once that "The Fall of Gondolin" was the first of the tales of the First Age to be composed, and there is...
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'One who dreams alone'

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A pale, drawn man sits in a convalescent bed of a wartime hospital. He takes up a school exercise book and writes on its cover, with a calli...

Venus, from 'The Planets'

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Venus voyages... but my voice falters; Rude rime-making wrongs her beauty, Whose breasts and brow, and her breath's sweetness Bewitch t...

Saturn, from 'The Planets'

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Goes SATURN silent in the seventh region, The skirts of the sky. Scant grows the light, Sickly, uncertain (the Sun's finger Daunted with...

Jupiter, from 'The Planets'

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In February 2003, Revd Dr Michael Ward, Chaplain of Peterhouse, University of Cambridge was reading the section of “The Planets” that deals ...
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Silly Adventure Stories

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Dear Phyllida, Thanks for your most interesting cards. How do you get the gold so good? Whenever I tried to use it, however golden it looked...