Writers in Community

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As Tolkien began his teaching career at the Uni versity of Leeds , he joined with his colleague E. V. Gordon to establish the Viking Cl...

The day death died

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The first thing he did was to lower himself and be born as one of "them." We almost got him killed when he was a baby. But he e...

My friend of friends...

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20 May 1945 I also have become much acquainted with grief now through the death of my great friend Charles Williams, my friend of friends,...

Via Mortis

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He measured out the rope to twice the length of his outstretched arms, and when the ruined city was once more silent he peered over, lett...

The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis

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To be published this Spring... Marking the 50th anniversary of Lewis’ death, The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis sees leading Chris...

Angband

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Into the vast and echoing gloom  more dread than many-tunnelled tomb in Labyrinthine pyramid where ev...

My free act contributes to 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 ...

Voyage to Venus

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I don't know much about what people call the religious view of life,' said Ransom, wrinkling his brow. 'You see, I'm a Chr...

The Giant Slayer

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When they came out into the air John blinked a little, but not much, for they were still only in a half-light under the shadow of the gia...

Lessons from the death of J.R.R.T.

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In September 1973, Father John Tolkien celebrated a Requiem Mass for his father at the Church of St. Anthony of Padua, in Oxford.  JRR To...
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“Pullulating as if with unspermed life...”

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Otherworldliness, longing and sensuality in All Hallows Eve... They were all now in a world of simple act...

Dor-na-Fauglith, Land of Thirst

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Once wide and smooth a plain was spread, where King Fingolfin proudly led h...

C.S. Lewis at the BBC

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For each talk in his first series, the BBC paid C.S. Lewis a fee of ten guineas plus an allowance to cover the cost of the railway journe...
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Positive Depravity...

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So much for Nature's imperfection; her positive depravity calls for a very different explanation. According ...
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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...