Saturday, 26 August 2023

Charles Williams, the City of God, and this mortal life as palimpsest of the eternal

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I first came across Charles Williams in Humphrey Carpenter's The Inklings (1979) which I read in 1987, while living a somewhat Inkling...
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Saturday, 5 August 2023

The Shire was not an anarchy nor did it have a government; but had a clan- (family-) based system of authority

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Some people have badly misunderstood The Shire as some kind of an 'anarchy'; with the implication that a lack of much in the way of ...
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Thursday, 27 July 2023

Why I found it necessary to revise the "polar metaphysics" of ST Coleridge and Owen Barfield

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The transcendental philosopher says; grant me a nature having two contrary forces, the one of which tends to expand infinitely, while the ot...
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Saturday, 1 July 2023

Review of The Battle of Maldon by JRR Tolkien (2023), edited by Peter Grybauskas

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JRR Tolkien.  The Battle of Maldon, together with The homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's son, and The Tradition of Versification in ...
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Monday, 26 June 2023

Romanticism Come of Age; a second edition of the biography of Owen Barfield by Simon Blaxland-de Lange

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Simon Blaxland-de Lange. Owen Barfield: Romanticism come of age . Temple Lodge Publishing: Forest Row, UK, 2006/ Second Edition 2021. pp. xv...
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Wednesday, 14 June 2023

Frodo's dream of the Elf Tower, in Crickhollow

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Eventually [Frodo] fell into a vague dream, in which he seemed to be looking out of a high window over a dark sea of tangled trees. Down bel...
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Thursday, 1 June 2023

The trade-off between life and works: Legolas, Gimli and the stones of Minas Tirith

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'We will come', said Imrahil; and they parted with courteous words.  'That is a fair lord and a great captain of men,' said ...
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Tuesday, 23 May 2023

Tolkien's On Fairy Stories audiobook, from the Catholic Culture Audiobooks website

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A few days ago, I stumbled across a new unabridged audiobook version of JRR Tolkien's seminal essay On Fairy Stories , published on the ...
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Monday, 15 May 2023

The perilous necessity of seeking enchantment

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I have been re-reading that most inspiring of essays: On Fairy Stories , by JRR Tolkien; and considering the need some of us feel (in the ...
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Monday, 24 April 2023

Could Tolkien’s orcs be incarnated demonic spirits? An invited guest post by commenter WW

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What follows is a guest post by commenter WW which I invited him to contribute on the basis of several very interesting comments on this the...
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Saturday, 22 April 2023

Review of Inkling, Historian, Brother: A life of Warren Hamilton Lewis, by Don W King, 2022

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Don W King. Inkling, historian, brother: a life of Warren Hamilton Lewis . Kent State University Press: Ohio, USA, 2022. pp 300.  I am delig...
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Implications of the truth that Aslan is Not a Tame Lion

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I was always struck by CS Lewis's hardline attitude to happiness or self-gratification in relation to Christianity - the way he emphasiz...
Wednesday, 5 April 2023

Correcting CS Lewis's definition of Joy

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From Surprised by Joy by CS Lewis, 1955.  Joy is distinct not only from pleasure in general but even from aesthetic pleasure. It must have ...
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Saturday, 1 April 2023

What more can we do with The Inklings (and Notion Club Papers)? Scholarship, Criticism, Philosophy, Fanfiction?

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There is always, eventually, a finite amount given us of what we most like and find most important .  For example, it seems as if not much m...
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My Treatment for how The Notion Club Papers might have been completed

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Tolkien's Notion Club Papers completed by Bruce G Charlton (a speculative, summary 'treatment' - as if for a movie)  Having broo...
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