Jack to Phyllida, in 1953

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Dear Phyllida, Thanks for your most interesting cards. How do you get the gold so good? Whenever I tried to use it, however golden it lo...

Williams on Wodehouse

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Barbara stretched out her hands, and Lionel pulled her to her feet. "I just want to shimmer up, like Jeeves, not walk," she sai...

Charles Williams to his wife...

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Shall I fall in love with you all over again? Twice - with you then as with you now, Either co-inherent in either, that brow In this an...

The Oxford Crematorium

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In the Oxford Crematorium... off the ring-road at Headington, and just outside the furthest chapel from the entrance... there is a small p...

Smoke on the Mountain (III) Review by C.S. Lewis

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Secondly, there is the very theme of the book. What should a Jewish Christian write on if not the Law? But notice that the choice of subj...

Smoke on the Mountain (II)

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Another point of interest in Joy Davidman's work comes from her race. In a sense the converted Jew is the only normal human being in...

Smoke on the Mountain (I)

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FOREWORD by CS Lewis   JOY DAVIDMAN, who began her career, appropriately enough, as nursery governess to a lion-cub, first came befo...

A Carol of Amen House

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On the anniversary of Charles' death in 1998, I with a friend sought out his grave in the graveyar...

The Novels of Charles Williams

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The Novels of Charles Williams   (Thomas Howard, Ignatius Press, 1983)  Originally published by Oxford University Press   Beatrice was ...

The Blue Wizards

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In the first text presented in  Unfinished Tales , dated tentatively by Christopher Tolkien to 1954, the arrival of the wizards to the g...
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Saruman the White

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Most often called Saruman the White, Saruman was the first of the five Wizards to arrive in Middle-earth, at the end of the first millen...

Radagast the Brown

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In a 1954 passage in Unfinished Tales he (Tolkien) says "of all the Istari, one only remained faithful... for Radagast, the fourth,...

Gandalf and the Istari

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"Gandalf is not, of course, a human being (Man or Hobbit). There are naturally no precise modern terms to say what he was. I would ...

Cranmer renouncing his recantation

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Cranmer renouncing his recantation" from the 1631 ed. of Foxe's Acts and Monuments;
 woodcut - Bodleian Library, Oxford Good...

Addisons Walk, 20th September 1931

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Just before 3am on the Sunday morning of the 20th September, Tolkien, Lewis and another Inkling, Hugo Dyson, took a stroll along the Cher...

Sing all ye People!

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Sing now, ye people of the Tower of Anor, for the Realm of Sauron is ended for ever, and the Dark Tower is thrown down...

Tolkien as 'translator'

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How thoroughly realised was Tolkien's fiction that he was the "translator" of "The Lord of the Rings"? Very tho...

The day death died

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But that moan was not only his. As if the sound released something greater than itself, another moan answered it. The sile...