Gomorrah closed itself against her...

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Adela ran. She had soon no breath for screaming. She ran. She did not know where she was going. She ran. She heard a voice calling b...

Free acts and the cosmic shape

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When we are praying about the result, say, of a battle or a medical consultation the thought will often cross our minds that (if only we...

Of Beren and Lúthien

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[Image: Beren and Lúthien -  Peter Xavier Price] Lúthien, called 'Lúthien Tinuviel' ...

Williams on 'Exchange'

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Charles talked and wrote a great deal about the practice of "exchange". It was one of the root rules of the Company. One made a ...

Wheaton College memories...

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I was a student at Wheaton College from 1961 to 1965 and ' Mere Christianity ' was required reading. I remember not liking the...

Letter to Phyllida

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[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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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"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

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

Celegorm and Huan

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

Childhood's End

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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

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

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

9/11

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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

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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

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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...