An article by the wonderfully-named William Wildblood. The blog referred to in this article is Albion Awakening Mere Christians If there were patrons of this blog, in the sense of guiding lights, they might well be C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien with an honourable mention, particularly in Bruce Charlton’s case, of Owen Barfield. The stories…
This fascinating article about Tolkien and language is from a blog called: MARY LOVES THE UK an American’s Viewpoint of the United Kingdom Eärendil was a mariner that tarried in Arverenien; he built a boat of timber felled in Nimbrethil to journey in… ~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (1994) Clarification for all readers who have…
This is a repost of an article by an author with the excellent name of William WIldblood. A sentence in John Fitzgerald’s recent post set me thinking. He wrote “The body of work left behind by the Inklings has helped re-mythologise the world and baptise the contemporary imagination”. I haven’t read much by any of the…
“I can put it no plainer than than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by it’s maker. And that may be an encouraging thought.” — Gandalf What is encouraging about this thought? Only persons can mean things. If Gandalf is right, someone more powerful than Sauron is at work…
An essay is by British professor, Bruce G Charlton, who maintains a blog inspired by Tolkien’s The Notion Club Papers Fantasy Fiction Is More Important Than ‘Real Life’: completing the argument of JRR Tolkien’s essay On Fairy Stories JRR Tolkien JRR Tolkien’s most famous and influential essay, and indeed by far the most famous and influential…