The Notion Club Papers - an Inklings blog

The Notion Club Papers (NCPs) is an unfinished (posthumous) novel by JRR Tolkien. The Notion Club was a fantasy version of The Inklings. My overview of NCPs is at: http://notionclubpapers.blogspot.com/2012/07/a-companion-to-jrr-tolkiens-notion-club.html. I was winner of the Owen Barfield Award for Excellence 2018.

Why did Tolkien come out of the Great War without suffering pessimistic disillusion?

Review of The Great Tales Never End: Essays in memory of Christopher Tolkien (2022)

Legolas and Gimli were - ultimately - wrong about Men

The Colin Duriez biography of JRR Tolkien

The Place of the Lion audiobook; my favourite of Charles's Williams's novels now available in a reading by David Pickering

Review of the Andy Serkis narrated audiobooks of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

Frodo's and Sam's coma after the one ring has been destroyed: Another of Tolkien's nods - but why?

What happened to Elladan and Elrohir? Were they a source of elvish inheritance in later Men?

Where did Frodo and Bilbo go after leaving the Grey Havens - Lonely Island or Blessed Realm?

Why is Tolkien's subcreated and fictional mythology (for most people) more powerful than traditional myths?

Another Tolkien-Birmingham connection: Ramer's meteorite identified as the boulder in Cannon Hill Park, Edgbaston (from the Notion Club Papers)

The River Anduin as bearer of the One Ring

True Romanticism in the Notion Club Papers

The reality of the imagined: Why did Tolkien frame the Lord of the Rings as if it was real history?

Leaf by Niggle and Subcreation

"In western lands beneath the sun" - discovery of another true poem in Lord of the Rings

Mrs Moore: The greatest mystery of CS Lewis's life - now officially solved

Is Aragorn more like King Arthur, or Alfred the Great?

A 35 year relationship with Surprised by Joy by CS Lewis (1955)