Wednesday, 16 November 2011

A small company

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* The Inklings knew themselves to be swimming against the tide, and that their numbers were small. The idea of a small 'company'...
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Charles Williams and the Positive Way

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* It has always been mysterious to me what Charles Williams was aiming-at with his writings on the Positive Way – also called the Via posi...
Tuesday, 8 November 2011

What did Charles Williams bring to The Inklings?

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* Charles Williams very clearly had an important role in the Inklings. Someone of his stature and personality cannot fail to have influe...
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Saturday, 29 October 2011

Native language?

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* NCPs pp 201-2 Ramer: "We each have a native language of our own - at least potentially. (...) "... the inherited, firs...
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Monday, 17 October 2011

Spirits speaking - touched in the quick...

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* From The Notion Club Papers pages 202-3. In this section, the Notion Club are discussing the nature of verbal communications from ...
Sunday, 16 October 2011

Tolkien and the world historical disaster of Vatican II

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* I feel particularly sorry for Tolkien that the Latin Mass, which was the focus of his life and something he saw as eternally dependable,...
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Tuesday, 11 October 2011

From Hobbit-sequel to Lord of the Rings - the role of The Notion Club Papers

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* 1936 was the crucial year for Tolkien and Lewis: not exactly the annus mirabilis (year of miracles) but at least the annus divertium (w...
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Friday, 30 September 2011

More on CS Lewis, JW Dunne and Time/ Dark Tower

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* http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2011/09/jw-dunne-and-cs-lewis.html *
Monday, 26 September 2011

A note on Hobbit government

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* Hobbits were not Men (or, at least, they were a very distinctive race of Men - long separated) - in particular they were much less stat...
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Wednesday, 21 September 2011

Abel Pitt as Adam Fox

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* I have made only sporadic attempts to 'identify' the list of Notion Club Paper members (listed on pages 159-160) with real life ...
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Tuesday, 20 September 2011

The lesson of Numenor

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* (Of course there is no single  lesson to derive from the Numenor myth; a true myth is not an allegory but a sub-creation with a life of ...
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Monday, 19 September 2011

Hierarchy, reverance and worship in Tolkien's work and life

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* Can be found at: http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/ *
Saturday, 10 September 2011

Humphrey Carpenter and Tolkien

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* I have been re-reading Humphrey Carpenter's authorized Tolkien biography, which I have read many times before - but not for quite ...
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Monday, 5 September 2011

Tolkien and Women - a word

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* The word is 'unspoiled'. * I am immensely grateful for the two volume JRR Tolkien Companion and Guide by Scull and Hammond -...
Saturday, 6 August 2011

Morgoth versus Sauron - Tolkien on the nature of evil

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What follows is one of the most interesting, and important, explanations of the nature of evil I have ever encountered; as exemplified by...
Monday, 25 July 2011

On JRR Tolkien's The Marring of Men

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* My only official Tolkien-related publication: http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2008/09/tolkiens-marring-of-men.html *
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Rank and Pay of Major Warren Hamilton Lewis

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Published as: Charlton BG. Warren H Lewis was an Honorary Major, with Captain as his substantive rank. On W.H. Lewis’s military rank. The ...
Sunday, 24 July 2011

If history is myth; then modern socio-politics is also myth

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* Since the core Inklings project (as made explicit in the TCBS and Notion Club) was the recovery of history as myth; this project (which ...
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Thursday, 14 July 2011

The Notion Club visualized by Afalstein

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* http://afalstein.deviantart.com/art/Notion-Club-Papers-The-Club-110360917 * http://afalstein.deviantart.com/art/The-Notion-Club-Pape...
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Sunday, 12 June 2011

Is reward more dangerous than punishment?

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* From The Letters of JRR Tolkien - letter number 131 to Milton Waldman, 1951: The Downfall [of Numenor] is partly the result of an inne...
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Saturday, 11 June 2011

How Tolkien could/ should have published The Silmarillion

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* JRR Tolkien died in 1973 leaving The Silmarillion unfinished; and a book of that name was published just four year later in a version m...
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Wednesday, 8 June 2011

Lowdham and Jeremy's 'research' expedition

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* From The Notion Club Papers , pages 266-8 (re-paragraphed): * 'Well,' said Jeremy, 'we stuck to the west coasts as mu...