Thursday, 10 December 2015

Tolkien's Tree - a collage

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Made from pieces of bark retrieved from the remains of 'Tolkien's Tree' - his favourite Pinus nigra found in Oxford's Bo...
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Saturday, 28 November 2015

What kind of elf would you wish to have been? What kind would you actually have been?

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There are many types of elf: http://valarguild.org/varda/Tolkien/encyc/articles/e/elves/elftypes.htm And many specific elves mentioned b...
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Monday, 16 November 2015

The Lord of the Rings is not a Trilogy

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Obviously it isn't https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilogy  It is just a novel (usually) published in three volumes: a three volume n...
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Saturday, 7 November 2015

The nature of Charles Williams's failure to repent adultery

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“I might almost have been capable of repenting, but as it would lead nowhere, I decided not to.” (p. 247, note 784). According to Grevel Li...
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Thursday, 29 October 2015

Charles Williams on TV - a review of Lewis

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http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/review-of-tv-programme-lewis-charles.html
Saturday, 24 October 2015

Charles Williams's underlying personal misery and despair as a 'reductio ad absurdum' of his theological convictions

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In her Introduction to The Image of the City, a collection of essays by Charles Williams, Anne Ridler states that 'At the centre of Will...
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Wednesday, 21 October 2015

Charles William's Romantic Theology: valid innovation or sophisticated rationalization?

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I regard Charles Williams's idea of Romantic Theology/ Positive theology/ via affirmativa as true, important and fruitful: his most sig...
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Monday, 19 October 2015

Mini-review of The Greater Trumps by Charles Williams

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When I came to read Charles William's novels, I was expecting to like best The Greater Trumps - partly because I had a sort of fascina...
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Friday, 16 October 2015

Romantic theology: Charles Williams versus the Mormons (Mormons win!)

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I first came across the idea of a Positive (as well as a Negative) Christian theology in the writings of Charles Williams - he also called ...
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Friday, 9 October 2015

The origin and meaning of the name Dolbear solved!

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http://notionclubpapers.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/what-is-meaning-etymology-of-dolbears.html
Wednesday, 7 October 2015

The not-so-reactionary political views of the Inklings - Robert Havard ('Humphrey') was somewhat left wing

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The new biography of Charles Williams by Grevel Lindop stated that Williams was broadly left wing in his attitudes - having discovered evi...
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Saturday, 3 October 2015

Review of Charles Williams: the third Inkling by Grevel Lindop

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Grevel Lindop. Charles Williams: the third Inkling . Oxford University Press, 2015. pp xx, 493. I should say upfront that this is an excel...
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Tuesday, 15 September 2015

Review of: The Detective Fiction Reviews of Charles Williams 1930-1935, edited by Jared Lobdell (2003)

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The Detective Fiction Reviews of Charles Williams 1930-1935 , edited by Jared Lobdell.McFarland & Company: Jefferson NC, USA & Londo...
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Monday, 29 June 2015

What is High Fantasy - in relation to Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

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* http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/what-is-high-fantasy-in-novel.html *
Friday, 19 June 2015

What was an Inklings meeting like? - Depictions of The Inklings

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* 1. An Inklings meeting was the (usually) Thursday evening/ night meeting in CS ('Jack') Lewis's rooms; to read work in progr...
Wednesday, 17 June 2015

Michael Moorcock's "Epic Pooh" essay on Tolkien and the Inklings

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* Some 25 years ago I came across Michael Moorcock's essay focused on Tolkien in a collection of essays entitled  Wizardry and Wild Rom...
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Thursday, 11 June 2015

Owen Barfield and the Truth of Imagination - Philosopher of the Inklings

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* Owen Barfield deserves his description as 'the fourth Inkling' - along with CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien and Charles Williams - because,...
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Monday, 1 June 2015

The contrasting dream-worlds of Lewis and Tolkien

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* CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien both used their dreams, and the relationship between dream-life and the awake state, as an important source in ...
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Friday, 15 May 2015

Charles Williams died seventy years ago today - i.e. his work is out of copyright at the end of this calendar year, and he is the first Inkling to be thus liberated

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* A significant anniversary therefore; and a further chance for this neglected author to find readers. For reasonable reasons (mainly wil...
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Thursday, 14 May 2015

Review of The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings by Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski (2015)

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* The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams . Philip Zaleski and Carol Zal...
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Wednesday, 6 May 2015

On beginning to understand Owen Barfield - a matter of perspective.

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* I have been intermittently plugging-away at the writings of Owen Barfield over the past several years - I have read a selection of summar...
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Thursday, 12 February 2015

Brilliant and deep understanding of Lord of the Rings in a five minute videa

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* http://superversivesf.com/2015/02/11/what-is-the-deal-with-the-one-ring/ I was seriously impressed by this little, slightly facetious, ...
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Saturday, 7 February 2015

The Christianity of the Inklings has disappeared, is no longer available

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* One of the sad things I experienced about being an Englishman coming to Christianity via the Inklings, is the (delayed) realization that ...
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Wednesday, 28 January 2015

My new essay on The Notion Club Papers is posted at L Jagi Lamplighter's Superversive Blog

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* http://www.ljagilamplighter.com/2015/01/28/j-r-r-tolkiens-unfinished-work-the-notions-club-papers/ Here is the essay in full: ...
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