Savage Beliefs?

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Medieval man shared many ignorances with the savage, and some of his beliefs may suggest savage parallels to an anthropologist. But he ha...

The shapes of the Greater Trumps

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Henry took a few steps forward, slowly and softly, almost as if he were afraid that those small images would overhear him, and softly a...

Writing and writers...

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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. ...

What happened to the power of the Rings once the One Ruling Ring was destroyed?

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The most widely held position is that with the destruction of the One Ring all the remaining rings also lost their power (including the ...

A Carol of Amen House

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Over this grave* a star Shines in the heavens high, Beauty remote and afar, Beauty that shall not die; Beauty desired and dreamed, ...

The Novels of Charles Williams

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The Novels of Charles Williams (Thomas Howard, Ignatius Press, 1983) Originally published by Oxford University Press What B...
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The Elves of Nargothrond

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The Hills of the Hunters Beren saw  with bare tops bitten bleak and raw by western winds; but in the mist of streaming rain...

Tolkien on the death of Lewis

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I am sorry that I have not answered your letters sooner; but Jack Lewis's death on the 22nd has preoccupied me.  It is also involving...

Lecture in Pusey House

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My Charles Williams speech last Sunday went off very well indeed.  I was a little nervous about addressing an audience of Oxford undergra...

The Genesis of Screwtape

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“Before the service was over -- one cd. wish these things came more seasonably -- I was struck by an idea for a book wh. I think...

Lewis on Williams

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Dec. 15th 1945 “... I am (these last 6 months) immersed in a v. different poet who I think great – Charles Williams: the two volumes of ...

Oxford Poetry 1947

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Unique among Blackwell's editions in having a biographical index, revealing that of the 23 contributors 12 had served as officers in ...

Smoke on the Mountain

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[A excerpt from Joy Davidman's  prescient  'Smoke on the Mountain' - She could have been writing now, not 60 years ago] ...

"Love would be safe in his own storm"

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Sybil Coningsby stepped out into the storm and tried to see before her.  It was becoming very difficult, and the force of the wind for t...

Brothers and Friends

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[Jack and Warnie as boys in Northern Ireland] Warnie has been home since before Christmas and is now retired... He has become a pe...

Of Puffins and Hobbits

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From a letter to Rayner Unwin 10 December 1960   [Puffin Books had offered to publish a paperback e...
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The Search for the House

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He sat back, lit a cigarette, and turned to other work, till, somewhere about half-past eight, Pewitt also rang up. Pewitt was ...

Planet Narnia

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Secret theme behind Narnia Chronicles is based upon the stars, says new research The hidden theme behind CS Lewis' Narnia books ...
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To Charles Williams

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On this day in 1945, C. S. Lewis' friend, fellow Inkling and author, Charles Williams, died suddenly at the Radcliffe ...

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. ...