Beren and the Red Maw

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Beren, in the form of a werewolf (Draugluin) at the gates of Angband, meets Carcharoth, the Red Maw... ...

Forbidden Pleasure

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Quick! The black, sulphurous, never quenched, Old festering fire begins   to play Once more within. Look! By brute for...

Neville Cogill and Vladek (Kronsteen) Sheybal

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In 1959, the Polish actor Vladek Sheybal arrived in England not knowing anyone and unable to speak English. He supported himself by worki...

A 'Tolkien' Christmas

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Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R. Tolkien’s children.  Inside would be a letter in ...

A 'Williams' Christmas

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A "spiritual thriller" about supernatural powers breaking in on everyday life when they are summoned for selfish purposes. I...

A 'Lewis' Christmas

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Three things go by the name of Christmas.   One is a religious festival.   This is important and obligatory for C...

He would have much preferred to operate necromantically...

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He believed therefore that as, by proper magical means, a soul could within certain limits of time, be recalled to its body, so this fal...
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Thû, or Sauron - from the Geste

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Thû, or as he was known in ‘The Lord of the Rings’ Sauron, was a servant of Morgoth, dwelling in his towe...

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] ...