Aslan... in 1931?

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Is this the first appearance of Aslan in literature?  Written by Charles Williams and first published in 1931 here we meet a tremendous l...
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On Dragon Island

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Laying anchor off the shore of the island, most of the ship's company went to the island to restore provisions, repair the broken wat...

A floating paradise, with a dragon.

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Over his head there hung from a hairy tube-like branch a great spherical object, almost transparent, and shining. It held an area of reflect...

Seed of Dragons...

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I n 1939, Tolkien gave a talk at Oxford on 'Fairy-Stories', later published in  Essays presented to Charles Williams . In this h...

Coins; his dragon's loins

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The king has set up his mint by Thames. He has struck coins; his dragon's loins germinate a crowded creaturely brood to scuttle and...

Tolkien and Beowulf

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The Dragon in  Beowulf … signifies the  feond mancynnes  (the enemy of mankind) and of God, so that the battle between Beowulf and the ...

Glaurung -- The Father of Dragons

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Glaurung was a very powerful dragon, if not the most magical. The largest of dragons, discounting the later flying dragons. Most cunning a...

The Dragon Speaks (Smaug?)

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Once the worm-laid egg shattered in the wood. I came forth shining into the trembling wood; The sun was on my scales, dew upon, the grass...

The Jabberwock

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"… the critic metamorphoses into the monster of the jabberwock, an unnatural creature that symbolises… perversion… This creature cre...

The Lay of the Children of Húrin (excerpt)

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With winding horns - winter hunted in the weeping woods, - wild and ruthless; sleet came slashing - and slanting hail from glowering heave...

Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor’s connection with the Inklings!

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Richard Jenkins won a scholarship to Oxford University at just 16; he adopted his teacher's surname (Phillip Burton) and made his first...

The Canterbury Tales

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With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject-matter,  The Canterbury Tales  have become one of the touchstones of medieval liter...

Welsh...

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Now here is a Tolkien quote that most will never have encountered before...  dyn treiddgar iawn Athro Tolkien... (I do not know who c...

Natural and Supernatural

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"... where Williams differs from (other) writers... is in his portrayal of a world of supernatural moral law governing the interact...

Beren and Lúthien

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[Image: Ted Nasmith] With so much of Tolkien's world having been made into movies of one kind or another, one wonders just how ...

Christ in us...

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[A modern bus coming down Headington Hill] The odd thing was that before God closed in on me, I was in fact offered what now appears a m...

"... you can't paint fizzing light, can you?"

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I am more shaky than usual this year. The North Polar Bear’s fault! It was the biggest bang in the world, and the most monstrous firework...

The Father Christmas Letters

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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 st...

Nature's depravity

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So much for Nature's imperfection; her positive depravity calls for a very different explanation. According to the Christians this i...

Jack, in a hat

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Now there are many stories about this famous hat, and Major (Warnie) Lewis recalls one of them in his Memoir prefacing the Letters. He wr...