Humility?

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You must therefore conceal from the patient the true end of Humility. Let him think of it not as self-forgetfulness but as a certain kind...

Beren & Lúthien in Angband

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[Image: Ted Nasmith] Into the vast and echoing gloom, more dread than many-tunnelled tomb in ...

A different source...

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[My garden in July] A garden...teems with life. It glows with colour and smells like heaven and puts forward at every hour of a sum...

Gondolin

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As recounted in The Silmarillion, the Vala Ulmo, the Lord of Waters, revealed the location of the Vale of Tumladen to the Noldorin Lord ...

Ballade of a Street Door

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As I came up into the town Wherein my father's house abide, I met a man in tattered gown,...
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Of Fingon's Fate... and the Silmarils

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The wars and wandering of the Gnomes this tale tells not. Far from their homes                      the...

Counting the Cost

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When I was a child I often had toothache, and I knew that if I went to my mother she would give me something which would deaden the pain ...

The Triumph of the Angelicals

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She was where he had left her, but dreadful change was coming over her. Her body was writhing into curves and knots where she lay, as if ...
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Beren steals the Silmaril

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[Image : Anke Eissmann] He heard afar their hurrying feet, he snuffed an odour strange and sweet; he smelled their c...

The real Lucy.

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As you may remember,  The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe  is dedicated to Lucy Barfield, Lewis's goddaughter. Sadly, about 15 years ...

That Hideous Strength

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Extremely witty, beautifully written, thought-provoking and a real page-turner, THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTH is the third volume in C.S. Lewis...
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A new blog - "The Oddest Inkling"...

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About  Charles Williams : Charles Walter Stansby Williams was a poet, novelist, literary critic, editor, English professor, biographer, ...

Angelic talk...

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For he (Lewis) talked like an angel. My idea of how angels might talk derives from Lewis. His prose is brilliant, amusing, intimate, cogen...

Doppelgaenger...

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Her heart sprang; there, a good way off-thanks to a merciful God -- it was, materialized from nowhere in a moment. She knew it at once, ho...

The Doppelganger

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A strange dichotomy I find Of mental disputation, Each time the Betty in my mind Meets Bett...

Death, on Westminster Bridge

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She was standing on Westminster Bridge. It was twilight, but the City was no longer dark. The street lamps along the Embankment were sti...

Guest Author...

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[Constable - Barge below Flatford Mill] A sneeky little extra post.  Not an Inkling, but Ronnie Blythe certainly would h...

Love...

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"Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to ...

Part of a review of a detective novel...

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Messrs. Cassell, on the jacket, ask "Why was Nahum afraid of life?" I don’t understand. Aren’t Messrs. Cassell? (Charles Wi...

The Long Defeat...

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In choosing to express my inner geekdom, I presently have SIX books by my bed that are by or related to Mr Tolkien (...