Monday, 20 March 2017

The importance of music in Life - the example of Owen Barfield

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In understanding a person from the past, or even someone still alive - we tend to study heir works, their ideas, their personal experiences ...
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Friday, 10 March 2017

The real, the true and wishful thinking

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For those who dislike Fantasy in the Tolkien tradition, the whole thing is an exercise in wishful thinking: escapism, cowardice, snobbery, n...
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Sunday, 5 March 2017

The Once and Future Charles Williams

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The Once and Future Charles Williams Bruce G Charlton Journal of Inklings Studies . 2016; 6 (1): 151-6 Like most people, I came to Cha...
Monday, 27 February 2017

Review of The Celian Moment - selected essays by Charles Williams

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Charles Williams. The Celian Moment and other essays . Edited by Stephen Barber. The Greystones Press: Carterton, Oxfordshire, 2017. pp xxvi...
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Monday, 6 February 2017

Review of The Return of the King cartoon movie 1980

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This 1980 made for TV cartoon version of the second half of The Lord of the Rings (LotR) comes from the same stable as The Hobbit of 1977 - ...
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Tuesday, 31 January 2017

Understanding the implications of Owen Barfield's Final Participation

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In the beginning Men were merely primordial selves immersed in the ocean of universal consciousness; and the history of everything has inclu...
Monday, 30 January 2017

Implications of Owen Barfield's Evolution of Consciousness

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When Owen Barfield described the evolution of consciousness, he used 'evolution' in a pre-Darwinian sense of a developmental change ...
Saturday, 28 January 2017

Negative feelings about The Silmarillion of 1977

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Although I have quite recently read and listened to the audiobook of The Silmarillion several times with some appreciation; my reaction to t...
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Thursday, 19 January 2017

The Romantic Theology of the Inklings (considered as a complementary group)

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Here, I am further exploring the idea of The Inklings as a complementary group entity; which I began recently: http://notionclubpapers.blog...
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Tuesday, 17 January 2017

Review of The Hobbit animated movie 1977

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The Hobbit - Script by Romeo Muller, made for TV on 1977 by the Rankin/ Bass Studio (78 minutes) Although my first view about a decade ag...
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Thursday, 12 January 2017

Fantasy fiction is more important than ‘real life’: completing the argument of JRR Tolkien’s essay On Fairy Stories

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By Bruce G Charlton Published at L Jagi Lamplighter's blog: http://www.ljagilamplighter.com/2017/01/10/on-fairy-stories-and-why-they...
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Sunday, 1 January 2017

Review of Tales from the Perilous Realm - Brian Sibley's 1992 radio adaptations of Farmer Giles of Ham, Smith of Wooton Major, Leaf by Niggle and some Lord of the Rings scenes featuring Tom Bombadil

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I came across this little gem while browsing a list of JRR Tolkien Audiobooks available for download - it is a set of four dramatised rad...
Friday, 30 December 2016

Does The Notion Club's fictional response to Ramer's story in The Notion Club Papers recall the real life reception of Tolkien's Lost Road?

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In the feigned Foreword to the supposed First Edition of The Notion Club Papers ( NCPs ), the 'editor' describes the work as nothi...
Thursday, 29 December 2016

Is Howard Shore's music the very best thing about the Lord of the Rings Movies (which are, themselves, among the very best movies ever)

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Just asking. Because I can hardly listen to the soundtrack without tearing-up, again and again. No other film score has ever affected me t...
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Wednesday, 28 December 2016

Tolkien and Barfield, Fantasy and Imagination - unexplored links

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The fact that Owen Barfield did not enjoy The Lord of the Rings is evidence of a lack of empathy with Tolkien's work; and indeed I have...
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Friday, 23 December 2016

Heaven and the Human Condition in ‘The Marring of Men’ (‘The debate of Finrod and Andreth)

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By Bruce G Charlton. The Chronicle of the Oxford University C.S. Lewis Society, 2008; Vol 5, Issue 3: 20-29 The Argument from Desire ...
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More on Tolkien and Vatican II

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Continuing from: http://notionclubpapers.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/tolkien-and-world-historical-disaster.html More evidence has come to ligh...
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