Some Answers...

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Dear Meredith, 1. Why did I become a writer? Chiefly, I think, because my clumsiness or fingers prevented me from making things in any ot...
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Monday 25 December (1922)

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We were awakened early by my father to go to the Communion Service. It was a dark morning with a gale blowing and some very cold rain. We ...
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from "The Greater Trumps"

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She took a step forward, and her heart beat fast and high as she seemed to move into the clouded golden mist that received her, and fantasti...

My heart and mind is in the Silmarillion...

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[Image : 76 Sandfield Road, Oxford] My heart and mind is in the Silmarillion, but I have not had much time for it. .... It may amuse you t...
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Look for Truth first

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Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not k...

Before Morgoth's Throne

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Beren and Lúthien before Morgoth's Throne in Angband. The battle in song before the throne, from the most important (IMHO of course) of...

On Writing...

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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...

from "The Ascent of the Spear"

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Taliessin walked in the palace yard; he saw, under a guard, a girl sit in the stocks. The stable-slaves, lounging by the ga...

Siamese cats...

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[A Cambridge cat breeder had asked if she could register a litter of Siamese kittens under names taken from The Lord of the Rings.] My onl...
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The first talk

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The first talk in What Christians Believe dealt with alternative belief systems, with atheism and with pantheism. This was broadcast on 11 ...
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Gil-Galad

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Bill Nighy singing my very favourite song from the 1980s. Written by J.R.R. Tolkien, I learned this at the time and have sung it many times ...

Tolkien on his critics in 1955

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[The radio adaptation of The Lord of the Rings was discussed on the BBC programme 'The Critics'; and on 16 November, W. H. Auden gav...
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A tame sort of God?

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One reason why many people find Creative Evolution so attractive is that it gives one much of the emotional comfort of believing in God and ...
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Clarity or Obscurity?

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The pattern of divided knowledge can be traced in criticisms of Charles Williams' writings. C.S. Lewis, himself a model of clarity, ...

Love making in Modern Literature

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Wayland Young: … in general from the standpoint of Christian morality, the description of love-making in literature is on a par with the de...

The spark that lit the fire

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(Charles) would admit that he was not a tidy man in the office and had occasional clean-ups. On one such occasion, after one paper basket w...

from "The English Poets"

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Every great nation has expressed its spirit in art: generally in some particular form of art. The Italians are famous for their painting, t...

The Death of Charles Williams

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[The King's Arms on the junction of Parks Road & Holywell Street, Oxford] Tuesday 15th May, 1945. At 12.50 this morning… the tel...

Bors and Elayne: The King’s Coins

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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 t...

What is the Purpose of Life?

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[Rayner Unwin's daughter Camilla was told, as part of a school 'project', to write and ask: 'What is the purpose of life?...