The Inklings

A place for an occasional examination of the work of the Inklings... and to marvel at, in Charles Williams' words, "... the staff work of the Omnipotence".

Letter to Phyllida

[Image: The Kilns] Dear Phyllida, Thanks for your most interesting cards. How do you get the gold so good? Whenever I tried to u...

Born of Hope

Born of Hope: The Ring of Barahir… is a 72-minute fantasy-adventure fan film directed by Kate Madison and written by Paula DiSant...

The Hunt for Gollum

The Hunt for Gollum is a 38-minute 2009 British fantasy fan film directed by Chris Bouchard and based on the appendices of The Lord of t...

Magdalen College on a sunshiny Monday Morning

Below is an interesting introduction, explaining how a literary manuscript, marginalia based on a lost letter, a series of lectures, and...

Betjeman, MacNeice and Lewis in 1927

Monday 24 th January 1927 Bussed back into town and to Betjeman's rooms in St Aldates — a v. beautiful panelled room looking acro...

On the Wild

"When pools are black and trees are bare, ‘tis evil in the wild to fare" BILBO Fellowship of the Ring J.R.R. Tolkien

Et in Sempiternum Pereant

[Holywell Cemetery, Oxford, just behind St. Cross Church - the large white stone in the centre marks the grave of Charles Williams] ...

Celegorm and Huan

[Image: "Celegorm - portrait" by Helena Štìpánová] Up rode Celegorm with his spear, and bitter d...

Childhood's End

Dear Joy, As far as I can remember you were non-committal about Childhood's End *: I suppose you were afraid that you might rai...

The Baby and the Bird

Old Rome had many taverns, Devoted to the vine, Where Ovid pledged each new love ...

The Rabbit Room

Prologue Memorabilia adorns me now. Quiet photographs of the legends I once accommodated. A plaque commemorating their presence. Ho...

9/11

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader has a passage which may remind us all of the way recent events have affected the lives of everyone in the ...

Food Parcels and Stationery

Following the Second World War, the peoples of Europe had been left hungry and miserable, with the economies of most European countries i...

Tolkien and languages

I am a West-midlander by blood (and took to early west-midland Middle English as a known tongue as soon as I set eyes on it), but perhap...

Mere Mortals?

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?

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

Fingolfin at the Gates of Angband

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

The original Bag End

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...

Wild Beasts

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

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