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.

Ramer contra Lowdham - comparing Tolkien's alter ego characters in The Notion Club Papers

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and other verses from The Red Book by JRR Tolkien, 1962 - a review of 50 years re-reading

JRR Tolkien, Beowulf; and the nature of this mortal life

Numenor and the insufficiency of mortal life in this-world

A note on the silver-handed Nodens and Tar-Telemmaite - resonances across the decades in JRR Tolkien

Experiencing spiritual contact with JRR Tolkien via The Notion Club Papers

JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, and wanting Heaven - rather than death or continued this-life

Space travel in The Notion Club Papers by "Incarnation. By being born" - What does Tolkien mean?

Tolkien's Subcreation is (more or less) Barfield's Final Participation

Review of Twenty-First Century Tolkien by Nick Groom (2023)

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

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

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

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

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

Frodo's dream of the Elf Tower, in Crickhollow