Mere Mortals?

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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and thei...

Tash, in 1931?

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[Do I detect a whiff of Tash in this passage from Charles Williams?] Her voice failed; she heard herself making grotesque noises in ...
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Fingolfin at the Gates of Angband

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[Image: Sam King] Fingolfin like a shooting light beneath a cloud, a stab of white, sprang then aside, and Ringil drew...
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The original Bag End

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This ancient trackway leads to Bag End Farm. The farm was owned by the Tolkien's Aunt, Jane Neave, and in 1923 the young Tolkien, rec...
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Wild Beasts

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[Another Charles Williams excerpt - for which I certainly do not apologise.  I have been re-reading "Place of the Lion" after m...

Another passage that seems, well, Narnian

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[Illustration by Pauline Baynes for "The Wood Between the Worlds"] "Now this world in which they exist is truly a re...

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...